Thauer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014
4 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 6 E.H. Smith 159 - Curtis v. . Moore · Purdy v. . Huntington · Friend v. Yahr · Marling v. Jones · Bautz v. Adams
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the owner of real estate executes a mortgage thereon, two interests or estates in the land are thereby created: one, the interest represented by the mortgage; and the other, the equity of redemption, or the fee title subject to the lien of the mortgage. Either of these interests may be conveyed.”
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.