First v. Byrne’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Emporia State Bank & Trust Co. v. Mounkes (1974), Akamine & Sons, Ltd. v. American Security Bank (1968)
9 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Pope Manuf'G Co v. Gormully · Cross v. Allen · Graves v. Seifried
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We construe the `dragnet' clause to mean that each mortgagor pledged his undivided interest in the mortgaged premises to secure, in addition to the specifically named joint indebtedness: first, any other existing or future joint indebtedness of the mortgagors to the mortgagee; second, any other existing or future individual debt of the mortgagor whose interest is sought to be foreclosed upon; and third, any existing or future debt of the other mortgagor which was known to the one whose interest is sought to be held and by him consented to or acquiesced in as being included in the lien upon his interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * We are left to assume the mortgage form was used without discussion of the particular clause in question and with no special regard having been given to its consequences certainly with no express common intent or purpose as to the debt in question. "No reason is suggested why this debt was not referred to in the mortgage if it was intended to be included. It would seem good faith required some mention of it."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`It is further expressly agreed that this mortgage shall stand as security for any other indebtedness, direct or contingent, that the mortgagee may now hold or in the future during the life of this mortgage acquire against the said mortgagors, or either or any of them.'”
2 later decisions 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.