Webster v. Wishon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 2005
1 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 Northwestern National Insurance Co. v. Mildenberger · Hargadine v. Henderson · Jones v. Sheppard · Brask v. Bank of St. Louis · Strawbridge v. Clark
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Junior incumbrancers will take precedence over the mortgagor, as regards the right to have their demands paid out of the surplus, because the execution of a junior mortgage amounts to an assignment of the mortgagor’s equity of redemption to the junior mortgagee and of the assignor’s right in equity to the surplus in case of a sale under the prior incumbrance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Junior incumbrances will take precedence over the mortgagor, as regards the right to have their demands paid out of the surplus’ ... ‘[w]here there are several liens on a tract of land, and it is sold under one of them, the surplus, after paying the lien under which it was sold, belongs in equity to the next subsequent liens in their order of priority.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boedeker v. Jordan
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.