Saum v. Hine’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1992
5 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 Campbell v. Carter · Richardson v. Hockenhull · Moffet v. Farwell · Edgerton v. Young · Shaver v. Williams
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the owner of a first mortgage acquires the title and there exists at the time a second mortgage on the premises, a merger of the first mortgage with the title will not result, so as to make the second mortgage the prior lien unless it clearly appears that a merger was intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anthony v. Clark
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.