Leland v. Collver’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1933
14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ In the prese'nt case the - parties have seen fit to stipulate expressly that the body of the fund may be changed without losing its identity, and that the mortgage may deal with it as if unchanged. The various purchasers have made their purchases subject to this arrangement and are estopped from denying it. The mortgagees in taking the properly did only what Shnyder agreed they might do, and what the several purchasers also understood they were authorized to do.””
2 later decisions 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.