Trent v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1978
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Regan v. Williams · Felker v. Rice · Johnson v. Spangler · Lewis v. Taylor · Trustees of the Old Alms-House Farm v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be said, first, that it is well settled that the assumption by a grantee and the agreement by him to pay the mortgage debt does not, within itself, change the relationship of the mortgagor and mortgagee nor release the mortgagor from payment of the mortgage debt, and its collection may be enforced as long as the debt: remains unpaid or until barred by limitation or laches. . [T]he well-settled doctrine in this State that the grantee of mortgaged lands who assumes and agrees to pay the debt secured by the mortgage becomes personally liable to the mortgagor for its payment. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Ferguson
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.