Burson v. Blackley’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Hill v. Preston (1931), Stinson v. Sneed (1914)
5 federal appellate · 28 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The release of one parcel or share would release all the other parcels from the same proportionate amount of their respective original liabilities which the value of the part released bears to the total value of the mortgaged premises; one owner being released, all the others are entitled to a pro rata abatement. When the equities of the various owners are unequal, so that their respective parcels are liable in the inverse order of alienation, if the mortgagee, having notice of this situation, releases a parcel which is primarily liable, he thereby discharges or releases all those parcels which are subsequently liable, in the order of their several liabilities, from an amount of the mortgage debt equal to the value of the parcel released. If the value of the parcel released equals the mortgage debt, then all the subsequent parcels are wholly relieved from liability; if the value is less than the mortgage debt, the subsequent parcels can at most be liable in their order only for the excess of the debt over such value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiggins v. Wagley
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.