Bamberger v. Geiser’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2012
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 James v. Morey · Watson v. Dundee Mortgage & Trust Investment Co. · Reeves v. Hayes · Lee v. Clark · Joerdens v. Schrimpf
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is not what the plaintiffs might have done to apprise the defendant grantees that they were incumbrancers, but what they were legally bound to do in order to preserve the priority of their lien against the subsequently acquired rights of the defendants in the property. As the plaintiffs were not bound, under the recording acts, to register their assignment, they were under no legal obligations to take the assignment of the mortgage in the form of a conveyance, and record it, in order to prevent a fraudulent discharge on the record, or to protect subsequent grantees or mortgagees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.