Nutter v. Mroczka’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Fall River Hous. Auth. v. HV COLLINS CAPE COD LATH (1992), Coleman Bros. v. Commonwealth (1940)
5 federal appellate · 27 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 Willard v. Wood · Frati v. Jannini · Locke v. Homer · Leshefsky v. American EmPloyers' Insurance · Cucullu v. Hernandez
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant, however, by accepting this deed containing the provision that he ‘assumes and agrees to pay’ the mortgage became bound to do so by reason of his promise implied from such acceptance whereby an obligation was created in the nature of simple [implied] contract, and not in the nature of a contract under seal.”
1 later decision 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.