Hilliard v. Cagle’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1982 · most notably Blennerhassett v. Sherman (1881), Hutchinson v. First National Bank of Michigan City (1892)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Wendell v. Van Rensselaer · Bullitt, Miller & Co. v. Taylor & Richardson · Summers v. A. Roos & Co. · Wells v. Treadwell · Lear v. Friedlander
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the natural and logical effect of the agreement and assignment, and the conduct of the parties thereto, was to mislead and deceive the public, and induce credit to be given to the mortgagor which he could not have obtained if the truth had been known; and therefore the whole scheme was fraudulent as to subsequent creditors, as much so as if it had been contrived from that motive and for that object.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bacon v. Harris“the natural and logical effect of the agreement and assignment, and tbe conduct of the parties thereto, was to mislead and deceive the public, and induce credit to he given to the mortgagor, which he could-not have obtained if the truth had been known, and, therefore, the whole scheme was fraudulent as to subsequent creditors, as much so as if it had been contrived from that motive and for that object.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.