Belmont v. . Coman’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1943 · most notably Keller v. Ashford (1890), Shepherd v. May (1885)
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An agreement merely to take land, subject to a specified encumbrance, is not an agreement to assume, and pay the encumbrance. The grantee, of an equity of redemption, without words in the grant importing in some form that he assumes the payment, does not bind himself personally to pay the debt. There must be words importing that he will pay the debt to make him personally liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepherd v. May
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.