Soniat v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1916
2 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 Park Bros. v. Blodgett & Clapp Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a debt, secured by mortgage, is due in several instalments, and the assignee of the second causes the property to be seized and sold, the sale.gives a complete title to the purchaser, and the creditor of - the first instalment cannot seize the property in his hands, unless he alleges cmdproves that the sale is an absolute nullity, or unless he proceeds against that purchaser, by the hypothecary action, for any proportion of the price to which he may be entitled, under a prior or concurrent mortgage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lovell v. Cragin
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.