Berger v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably National Bank of Eastern Arkansas v. General Mills, Inc. (1960), Emporia State Bank & Trust Co. v. Mounkes (1974)
11 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hollan v. American Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. · Lightle v. Rotenberry · 2 Cal. App. 216 - Provident Mutual Building & Loan Ass'n v. Shaffer · Perrin v. Kellogg · Myers v. Shain Lumber 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ortgages of this character have been denominated 'anaconda mortgages' and are well named thus, as by their broad and general terms they enwrap the unsuspecting debtor in the folds of indebtedness....”
7 later decisions 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.