Butts v. Peacock’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1970
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Coolidge v. Melvin · Divver & Gunton v. McLaughlin · Place v. Langworthy · Youngs v. Wilson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There are certainly strong reasons for holding such a mortgage fraudulent in law, upon the ground that it necessarily tends to hinder and delay the creditors of the mortgagor. It tends directly to deceive and mislead them, by inducing them to believe that the property is absolutely incumbered to the amount expressed on the face of the mortgage, when in truth it is not so. And it is clear that this might materially hinder them in the enforcement of their claims.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“nothing of the kind appeared on the face of the mortgage, which purported to be for an absolute existing indebtedness.”
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.