Ready v. Ready’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1991
4 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is undisputed that ... the mortgage showed on its face that it was a junior mortgage subject to an indebtedness to the bank and that all parties concerned considered it a junior mortgage for that purpose, but for that purpose alone. It is also uncontradicted that this prior mortgage was paid and released. It seems to us that there is no question but that as soon as this mortgage indebtedness had been paid and released of record, that the mortgage of the complainant would become a first mortgage and lien, and regardless of who were the owners or holders of notes of a later mortgage, they could not have a lien that would be prior to the mortgage in question [since it] was a matter of record which anyone could see.”
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.