Willis v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1946
2 district · 7 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 Pence v. Armstrong · Evansville Gas-Light Co. v. State ex rel. Reitz · Packer v. Roberts · Teal v. Hinchman · Goddard v. Renner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ On my own behalf, I am obliged to say that I am unable to acquiesce in this doctrine. I do not think that the decree of foreclosure and sale merges or extinguishes the lien of the mortgage. The mortgage lien is a specific one, and the judgment obtained is a general one. The suit of foreclosure is a remedy for the enforcement of the lien, and certainly is not intended to have the effect to impair or abridge the mortgage lien. That effect can only be accomplished by payment of the mortgage debt, or a release. The lien was created by the mortgage, and the decree neither added to nor took anything from it, and the effect of the sale under it was vacated or terminated by the redemption, and thereafter the mortgage and judgment of foreclosure stood as though no sale had ever been made. ” ( 23 Or. 361 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* ‘ The defendants received the benefit of the sale, or the proceeds of it, in payment of their debt, and it operated as a sale to them, and consequently to extinguish the mortgage lien upon the land; and as the personal judgment for the deficiency is against the judgment debtor Phipps, it could not, when docketed, have created any lien against the property of the plaintiff, nor could any execution issued upon such judgment affect it.” ( 23 Or. 361 )”
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.