McKelvey v. Creevey’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Conference Center Ltd. v. TRC—The Research Corp. (1983), Red Rooster Construction Co. v. River Associates, Inc. (1993)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Ensign v. Batterson · Waterbury Savings Bank v. Lawler · Sherwood v. City of Lafayette · Southbridge Savings Bank v. Mason · Cooper v. Davis
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t may be that the mortgagee could recover damages for the intentional removal of fixtures whereby the value of the security is impaired to his detriment, but that question is not before us here and is not decided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the mortgage is regarded as mere security for the performance of the duty described in the mortgage deed; and the mortgagor is for most purposes regarded as the sole owner of the land. . . .”
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.