Turner v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1948
2 federal appellate · 17 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every instrument intended to secure the payment of money, whatever may be its form, and whatever name the party may choose to give it, is, in equity, a mortgage. [Flagg v. Mann], 2 Sumn. 533 [Fed. Cas. No. 4847] ; Story’s Eq. sec. 1017; [Cotterell v. Long], 20 Ohio, 469, 472; Read v. Gaillard, 2 Desaus. 555 [ 2 Am. Dec. 696 ] ; Eaton v. Whiting, 3 Pick. [Mass.] 484; Bloom v. Van Rensselaer, 15 Ill. 505 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parks v. Watson
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.