Mitchell v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 1941 · most notably Shone v. Bellmore (1918), Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. v. Olvera (1941)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Kelly v. Strouse & Bros. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Crosby · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Beazley · Southern Home Insurance v. Putnal · Christopher v. Mungen
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All deeds of conveyance, obligations conditioned or defeasible, bills of sale or other instruments of writing conveying or selling property, either real or personal, for the purpose or with the intention of securing the payment of money, whether such instrument be from the debtor to the creditor or from the debtor to some third person in trust for the creditor, shall be deemed and held mortgages, and shall be subject to the same rules of foreclosure and to the same regulations, restraints and forms as are prescribed in’ relation to mortgages. (Jan. 30, 1838, Sec. 1, Ch. 525, Jan. 8, 1853, Sec. 1.).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marcus v. Hull
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.