Mulvane v. Sedgley’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1956
2 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shepherd v. May · Locke v. Homer · P. J. Willis & Brother v. Chowning · Cucullu v. Hernandez · Bull v. Coe
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where property is sold, and the purchaser agrees to pay the consideration therefor, or a portion thereof, to a creditor of the vendor, the purchaser, as between himself and the vendor, becomes the principal debtor, and the vendor only a surety.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““Whether this relation of principal and surety extends to and is binding upon the mortgagee depends upon the answer to the question, Did the mortgagee consent to and accept this relation as binding upon her? If not, clearly she may disregard the relation and recover upon the notes as against the makers.” (p. 111.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nuzman v. Bennett
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.