Whorton v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1987
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This claim of [a junior mortgagee] to be compensated for the damage done to his mortgage interest by the wrongful acts of the [senior mortgagees] is a purely legal claim, and could undoubtedly be enforced in what would formerly have been denominated an action on the case. He made his claim in the present [foreclosure] proceeding as being an appropriate means of obtaining compensation for the wrong done him .... We think he has the same right in this [foreclosure] proceeding that he would have in a direct action to recover his damages for the waste committed by the [senior mortgagees].”
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.