Nims v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1978
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The real case .in controversy seems to be this: A mortgagee has taken security upon several lots of land which apparently are more than sufficient to protect him, but has agreed with the mortgagor, as a. part of the transaction, that the latter may withdraw from the lien the first three of the lots he may have an opportunity to dispose of. Afterwards the mortgagee refuses to perform his agreement, insisting upon its invalidity, and upon various excuses, none of which has force. We see no alternative but to hold him to his agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Carter
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.