Henderson v. Pilgrim’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1968 · most notably Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Talbot (1887), Swasey v. Emerson (1897)
1 federal appellate · 24 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion that an assignment of a mortgage is ‘a lien affecting the title to land,’ ‘a ■written contract in relation to land,’ ‘an agreement,’ ‘an instrument of writing of or concerning land,’ within the meaning of our registry laws, such as ought to be recorded, to make it effectual against subsequent purchasers, for a valuable consideration, without notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Brown
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.