Curtis & Lane v. Flinn’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2000
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whereas, the said Eobert Haley is justly indebted to the mercantile firm of Stallings & Hunt, and, exclusive of the aforesaid indebtedness, the said Stallings & Hunt may make advances to the said Eobert Haley in money, goods or supplies, during the present year to the amount of $100; and the said Eobert Haley,' being desirous of securing the full and prompt payment of what he now owes or may hereafter become indebted to the said Stallings & Hunt, this conveyance is now made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Walker““If a mortgage contains a general description sufficient to embrace the liability intended to be secured, and to put the person examining the record upon inquiry, and to direct him to the proper source for more minute and particular information of the amount of the incumbrance, it is all that fair-dealing and the authorities demand.” ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Hawks
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.