Walker v. Dement’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1938 · most notably Herrington v. McCollum (1874), Buehler v. McCormick (1897)
26 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 Olds v. Cummings · Sargent v. Howe · Moshier v. Knox College
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We regard the proposition as fully settled and firmly established, that, as between the parties, the mortgagee may assign any of a series of notes, secured by mortgage, and by agreement give a prior equity or lien on the mortgaged premises for their payment out of the fund, in preference to those he retains. And we regard the rule as equally well established that all persons .taking the notes thus retained, with notice of the agreement for the priority of lien given to the others, are as fully bound by that preference as are the parties to the contract. It is a matter about which parties may legally contract, and when they do so, it will be upheld and enforced precisely like other lawful agreements.””
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.