Greeley v. Reading’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1919
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Weber v. Armstrong
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If McCune (the mortgagee), in good faith, took actual possession of the stock of goods in question for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt justly due to him from Reading (the mortgageor), and continued to-hold possession of the same, up to the time of the levy of the attachment, it is wholly immaterial that the mortgage was improperly recorded, or that it contained stipulations which rendered it void except as between the-parties. This was expressly decided in Nash v. Norment ( 5 Mo. App. 545 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dobyns v. Meyer
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.