Whittington v. Flint’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Parish v. Pitts (1968), Brickhouse v. Hill (1925)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legal estate in mortgaged property passes to the mortgagee, subject to* be defeated by performance of the conditions of the mortgage; and the right of possession follows the legal title, unless controlled by stipulations in the-deed, or by the apparent intention of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frame v. Bivens
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.