Bailey v. Willoughby’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1942
6 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 Moore v. Calvert · Prout v. Root · Dodder v. Moberly · Dix v. Smith · Cochrane v. Rich
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law, the equity of a mortgagor in. property could not be attached, but by the statutes of several of the states, this rule has been changed so that the interest of a mortgagor in chattel property may be attached, garnished, or seized and sold under execution. This, however, can only be done by statutory permission. At common law, the legal title was, by the mortgage, vested in the mortgagee, and this title became absolute upon default. The mortgagor only had the equity of redemption — nothing more.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Personal property mortgaged may be taken under attachment or execution issued at the suit of a creditor of a mortgagor.””
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.