Purdom v. Broach’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2006
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Factors' & Traders' Insurance v. Murphy · Stantons v. Thompson · Factors' Traders' Ins Co v. Murphy · Wiedemann v. Crawford
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prevailing rule, as announced by the majority of the state courts, and by the United States Supreme Court, is that the question of merger is always one of intention, and, unless an intention to merge clearly appears, no merger results from the acquirement by the holder of the senior mortgage of the interest of the mortgagor, and the senior mortgage retains its priority as against all junior or intervening liens upon the mortgaged property; and this is true, whether the interest of the mortgage is the legal title to the land or the mere equity of redemption. It is only when the fee and the lien center in the same person without any intervening claims, liens, or equities that a merger of the title and the lien will take place.”
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.