Barnett v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1995
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gresham v. Ware · Ehrman v. Alabama Mineral Land Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]hen the legal title becomes united with the equitable title, so that the owner has the whole title, the mortgage is merged by the unity of possession." [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.