Gregory v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1838
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 1966 · most notably Tolman v. Smith (1890), Boyd v. Beck (1857)
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Hamilton Exor. v. Callender's Exors.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is said that the defendant’s second mortgage ex tinguished the first; and consequently, being put to stand exclusively on the last, which was in 1835, the plaintiff’s mortgage of the previous September is let in. The argument is against all the books, ancient and modern. Adjudications of several centuries, upon'such cases, of every variety of form, in England, in this state and in neighboring states, settle the proposition that a subsequent security for a debt of equal degree with a former, for the same debt, will not by operation of law extinguish it.””
2 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.