Burr v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““And the fact that complainant had executed to the Title Guarantee Loan & Trust Company a mortgage on his undivided interest did not in any manner adversely affect his right to a decree of sale for division. In a court of equity, the mortgage is merely a security for the debt, and the mortgagor’s equity of redemption is regarded as an estate in land, separate from the legal estate, alienable or transmissible by descent or devise.... Moreover, said mortgagee was made a party defendant for the purpose of having the indebtedness due on the mortgage paid to it, and has answered admitting the averments of the bill, and in no event, therefore, could said mortgage adversely affect the decree of sale.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baines v. Jordan