Sutphen v. Cushman’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Auzerais v. Naglee (1887), Burton v. Perry (1893)
44 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Brown v. Gaffney · Miller v. Thomas · DeWolf v. Strader · Coates v. Woodworth · Davis v. Hopkins
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cl The right to redeem lands so conveyed can not be established by simply proving that such was the understanding on which tiie deed was executed, because equity as well as the law will seek for the-understanding of the parties in the deed itself. The right must be one paramount to, and independent of, the terms of the deed, as well as of any understanding between the parties at the time it tras executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. May v. May
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.