Banning v. Bradford’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1941
18 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Lewis v. . Smith · City of San Francisco v. Lawton · Frost v. . Koon · Corning v. . Smith · Newman v. Home Insurance 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Only the rights and interests under the mortgage and subsequent to it can properly he litigated upon a bill of foreclosure. One claiming adversely to the title of the mortgagor cannot be made a party to the suit for the purpose of trying his adverse claim. * * * This prior claim is not a subject-matter of liLigation in the foreclosure suit, and remains unaffected by it””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A mortgagee cannot maintain an action to foreclose his mortgage against one who claims the premises described in the mortgage, by a title adverse, and, if valid, paramount, to that of: the mortgagor.””
1 later decision 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.