Nice's Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2025
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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it has been held that an unrecorded mortgage is not wholly inoperative. It will avail against the mortgagor himself, or his alienee or mortgagee with notice ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a debt secured by an unrecorded mortgage ... has no right to take precedence of the general debts, but must come in for its share as one of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an unrecorded mortgage is a forbidden thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.