Mason v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1938
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatéver interest in the land the mortgagee obtains, less than the fee, under these decisions, and whatever it may properly be denominated, it is certainly an. interest, and a substantial interest, which may pass by a conveyance. By our statute (sec. 2203, R. S.) 'conveyances of land, and of any estate or interest therein, may be made by deed,’ etc. It follows, therefore, that, according to the old or the modern theory of mortgages, a quitclaim deed by the mortgagee will operate as a discharge of the mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Latton v. McCarty
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.