Nudelman v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1961
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 Strause v. Dutch · Fitch v. Wetherbee · Williams v. Williston · Seligman v. Laubheimer · Whitehead v. Hall
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.
““April 8, 1930, Floyd W. Sullivan was the owner of certain real estate located in Chicago. On that date, he executed instruments creating three mortgage or trust deed liens to secure the payment of certain indebtedness. The priority of the liens was established as first, second and third. May 10, 1930, Sullivan conveyed the premises subject to the mortgage liens to Georgia W. Bibb and has never reacquired the title. In 1932, the third mortgage lien was extinguished by a foreclosure of the second mortgage. Appellant’s assignor owned the third mortgage and was made a party to the foreclosure of the second. He filed an answer and set up his mortgage indebtedness. The decree of foreclosure fixed the amount due on the third mortgage and directed that any surplus remaining after the payment of the second mortgage should be paid on the third. Nothing was received on the third mortgage and no deficiency judgment was taken in the foreclosure proceeding. “September 9’ 1936, a decree of foreclosure was entered foreclosing the first trust deed and directing a sale of the premises. October 26, 1937, the property sold for $28,000 and a deficiency judgment of more than $90,000 was entered against Floyd W. Sullivan. The deficiency judgment was entered in the name of a trustee for the benefit of all the holders of the bonds secured by the trust deed. Appellees Joseph Z. Willner and Harry A. Biossat, acting through appellee Bay E. Carlson, acquired certain interests and became beneficially int”
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.