Olds v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably Peoria & Springfield Railroad v. Thompson (1882), Stiger v. Bent (1884)
1 federal appellate · 117 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 Westfall v. Jones
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have not met with a single case where remedy has been sought in a court of chancery upon a mortgage by an assignee, in which every defense has not been allowed which the mortgagor or his representatives could have made against the mortgagee himself, unless there has been an express statute authorizing the assignment of the mortgage itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connor v. Wahl““ The right of an assignee to set at defiance a defense 'which could be made against the assignor is an arbitrary statutory right, created for the convenience of commerce alone, and must rely upon the statute for its support] and is not fostered and encouraged by courts of equity.””
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.