Shields v. Pepper’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1950 · most notably Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1937), Shaddix v. National Surety Co. (1930)
28 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 First Avenue Coal & Lumber Co. v. King · Shields v. Hightower · Brindley v. State · Shields v. Hightower · Cook v. Kelly
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the averments of Pepper’s cross-bill, the Whitt-Hall mortgage was outstanding when the lands were purchased by Robison. He acquired only an equity of redemption therein to which the statutory lien attached. Pepper loaned the money to pay this mortgage, and paid it to the holder. Pepper took a mortgage for his loan, and the Whitt-Hall mortgage was satisfied and canceled. “Under these facts Pepper has a clear right of subrogation, a revival of the equitable lien of the Whitt-Hall mortgage for his protection against the intervening lien created by statute.””
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.