Mechtle v. Topp’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1974
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this state a mortgage conveys no title to or estate in the property covered by the mortgage, but is merely a contract by which specific property is hypothecated as security for the performance of an act.” Mechtle v. Topp, 78 N.D. 789 , 52 N.W.2d 842, 844 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aure v. MacKoff““In this case when Topp advanced the money to the sheriff to redeem Mechtle’s land from foreclosure, there instantly arose an implied obligation on the part of Mechtle to repay the mon'ey so advanced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ginter v. Ginter
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.