Herrin v. Abbe’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Jackson v. Parker (1943), Florida Moss Products Co. v. City of Leesburg (1927)
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Sanderson's Administrators v. Sanderson · Platt v. Rowand · Sullivan v. Lear · American Lead Pencil Co. v. F. A. Wolfe & Co. · Wilson v. King
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A promise by the purchaser of lands that are subject to a mortgage to assume and pay off the incumbrance as a part of the consideration or purchase price is not required to be in writing because it is not a promise to pay the debt of another, but it is a promise to pay to a third party the debt the grantee owes to the grantor. The fact that in thus paying his own debt the grantee incidentally discharges the debt of his grantor does not bring the promise within the statute of frauds."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A parol agreement by the grantee, at the time of taking a deed of conveyance to real estate, that he will assume the mortgage indebtedness upon the property as a part of the consideration of the conveyance may be enforced in equity by the mortgagee. Wilson vs. King, 23 N. J. Eq. 150; Wright vs. Briggs, 99 Ind. 563 ; Lamb v. Tucker, 42 Iowa 118 ; Jones on Mortgages #741 et seq; Pomeroy’s Eq. Jur. 1206.””
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.