Honeyman v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 539 · 1939
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey (1977), City of El Paso v. Simmons (1965)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Sturges v. Crowninshield · Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Worthen Co Board of Com'rs of Street Improvement Dist No 513 of Little Rock Ark v. Kavanaugh · W. B. Worthen Co. v. Thomas
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract contemplated that the mortgagee should make himself whole, if necessary, out of the security but not that he should be enriched at the expense of the debtor or realize more than what would repay the debt with the costs and expenses of the suit. Having a total debt of $15,771.17, with expenses, etc., of $1,319.03, appellant has obtained through his foreclosure suit the property of the debtor found without question to be worth over $25,000. He has that in hand. We know of no principle which entitles him to receive anything more. Assuming that the statute before its amendment permitted a recovery of an additional amount through a so-called deficiency judgment, we cannot say that there was any constitutional sanction for such a provision which precluded the legislature from changing it so as to confine the creditor to securing the satisfaction of his entire debt.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inasmuch as no deficiency judgment was obtained in the manner specified in the statute, and inasmuch as under the statute the proceeds of the sale of the mortgaged property, regardless of the amount, are deemed to be in full satisfaction of the mortgage debt; and inasmuch as under the statute no right exists to recover any deficiency in any action or proceedings, the motion to revive was not well founded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“limitation upon deficiency judgments during emergency period.”
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.