Waite v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1929
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 Fearey v. Cummings · Kohl v. Lynn · Cooper v. Brock · Skinner v. Shannon
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The other question was substantially decided in Kohl v. Lynn, 34 Mich. 360 , and Fearey v. Cummings, 41 Mich. 376 , where it was distinctly intimated that, in order to justify the application of the statute making mortgages, whether honest or not, absolutely void for want of filing or possession, some act must be done, or some detriment sustained, during the interval. As against all such rights, a mortgage without such possession or filing is absolutely, and not merely presumptively, void; while conveyances not by way of mortgage are only presumptively void, under such circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vining v. Millar
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.