Hughes v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2007
5 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 New England Mutual Life Ins. v. Capehart · Bovey De Laittre Lumber Co. v. Tucker
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] purchaser at a mortgage sale ... has the right to acquire absolute title to the land, unless it is redeemed within the time allowed by law by one who has a right under the statute to redeem; and he cannot be deprived of this right by one who is not a lawful redemptioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Ilf the law [were] otherwise, anybody and everybody might redeem, without the purchaser being able to question their right to do so.”
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.