Clark v. Reyburn’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 318 · 1868
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Brine v. Insurance Co. (1877), Chicago v. Fosdick (1882)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equity interposed and permitted tlie mortgagor, within a reasonable time, to redeem upon the payment of the amount due before sale;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Dacres“by the common law, when the condition of- the mortgage was. broken, the estate of the mortgagee became indefeasible,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Dacres
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.