Scott v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1986
16 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 Grooms v. Hannon
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the statute is that there shall be upon the record an acknowledgment of equal publicity with the record itself; that the mortgage is satisfied; that it is not longer an available security, or an incumbrance upon the title of the mortgagor.””
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.