Layden v. . Layden’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2000
17 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
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“and that fault is penalized, in our jurisprudence, by refusal to hear the deferred portion in a later suit. It follows that a foreclosure upon one of two parcels will preclude a later foreclosure upon the other. See, also, Layden v. Layden, 228 N.C. 5 , 44 S.E.2d 340 (1947). That, likewise, has been the law in this jurisdiction since at least 1903. In the case of Nebraska Loan & Trust Co. v. Domon, 4 Neb. (Unoff.) 334, 93 N.W. 1022 (1903), it was said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a party elects to sell only a part of the security, pursuant to the power of sale contained in his mortgage or deed of trust, he cannot thereafter assert any right under such power, even though the. secured debt may not have been satisfied in full”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the mortgagee may not foreclose his mortgage by piecemeal.”
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.