Hammock v. Oakley’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2003
14 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 Wood v. Estes · Kimbrell v. Rogers · Sumners v. Jordan · Bank of Cottonwood v. Hood · Mitchell v. Baldwin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of any statute on the subject, the rule, well-nigh universal, is that, when a debt secured by a mortgage has been paid, the mortgage becomes functus officio, and it cannot be made to stand as security for a new or different debt between the parties, or reissued to a different creditor.”
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.