Case v. Fant’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 41 · 1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2014
6 federal appellate ·
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 Jones v. Guaranty and Indemnity Company · James v. Morey · Purdy v. . Huntington · Kellogg v. . Ames · Worcester National Bank v. Cheeney
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that a mortgage will not be merged or extinguished by a subsequent conveyance from the mortgagor to the mortgagee of the mortgaged premises unless such -appears to have been the intention of the parties, and justice requires it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Cady
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.