Walker, Smith & Co. v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1991
15 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 Lockwood v. Sturdevant · Baldwin v. Norton · Marshall v. Wood · Slocum v. Catlin
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.
“In cases where there is no interest on the part of the mortgagee to keep the two estates separate and distinct, a merger is effected by a union of the estates, the less estate sinks into the greater, and the debt will be treated as paid and satisfied, particularly if the value of the mortgaged premises is equal to the amount of the debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Licursi v. Sweeney
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.