Mack v. . Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1943
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 Hughes v. Edwards · Murdock v. . Waterman · Acker v. . Acker
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mortgagor could, of course, have kept the debt alive as to the Andersons, by making payments within the period of limitation, even without their knowledge or consent. Such payments would have bound the Andersons, not upon the theory that the mortgagor was their agent, but because the latter was simply paying his own debt, with which the land of the former was burdened.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kaiser v. Idleman
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.