Kelly v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock (1933), Krametbauer v. McDonald (1940)
135 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 Sandlin v. Anders · Oden v. King · Hardie-Tynes Mfg. Co. v. Cruise · Bank of New Brockton v. Dunnavant · Dozier v. Farrior
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of sale in a mortgage is not only a power [coupled] with an interest, but it is quickened with an element of trust, `and the donee of the power is charged as a quasi trustee with the duty of fairness and good faith in its execution, to the end that the mortgagor's property may be disposed of to his pecuniary advantage in the satisfaction of his debt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . . And this rule .... inures to the benefit of a party who has acquired rights in subordination to the mortgage by a conveyance from the debtor . . . . ””
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.