Wilson v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably Continental Bank v. Barclay Riding Academy, Inc. (1983), State v. Athorn (1966)
27 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 Colton v. Depew · Lutjen v. Lutjen · Blue v. Everett · Massie v. Asbestos Brake Co. · Colt v. Miller
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if it be assumed that a forbearance to bring suit is negligence on the part of a mortgagee, I am unable to see how it is the cause of prejudice to the heirs or grantees of a deceased mortgagor. It obviously cannot be prejudicial, if the mortgage debt is still outstanding and unpaid; it could only be prejudicial from the standpoint of difficulty in proving a possible payment or discharge of the mortgage debt. But clearly it is negligent of a mortgagor who pays or discharges his mortgage obligation, to fail to obtain the bond and mortgage, or to have the mortgage canceled or discharged of record; and it is that negligence which is the real cause of prejudice to him or his successors, rather than the mortgagee's delay in bringing suit.”
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.