John Van Ness v. Alpheus Hyatt’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 294 · 1839
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1991
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In tlie United States, different views have been taken on this question in the courts of the several states. It is said in 4 Kent’s Com. .153-4, that courts of law have, by a gradual and almost Insensible progress, adopted the views of a court of equity on the subject of mortgages, which are founded in justice, and accord with the true intent and inherent nature of the transaction; that, except as against the mortgagee, the mortgagor, while in possession, and before foreclosure, is regarded as the real owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCullough v. Smith
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.