Martin v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2016
16 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The severance then necessarily resulting from the law, there was no error in prosecuting the suit against the survivor to the full extent of his indebtedness, and to obtain satisfaction from the mortgaged property, to the extent of such survivor’s interest in the property mortgaged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Albiar v. Arguello
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.