Minge v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2007
23 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 Cooper v. Watson · Luckett v. Townsend · Jackson, Morris & Co. v. Rutherford · Rees v. Coats · Gafford v. Stearns
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The pledgee . . . has a special property in the thing pledged, and is entitled to the possession of it until the obligation secured is satisfied; he is entitled to this against the pledgor and the world, and may maintain appropriate actions for the protection of his possession and his security, of course according to the contract of the pledgee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blakeney v. Dee
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.