Villa v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
79 U.S. 323 · 1870
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2003 · most notably United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1942), Peugh v. Davis (1877)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 22 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [bona fide purchaser] doctrine invoked has no application where the rights of the vendee lie in an executory contract. It applies only where the legal title has been conveyed and the purchase-money fully paid.”); Smith v. Orton, 131 U.S. app. lxxv, lxxviii (1866) (”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ The form of the instruments employed is immaterial. That the mortgagor knowingly surrendered, and never intended to reclaim, is of no consequence. If there is vice in the transaction, the law, while it will secure to the mortgagee his debt, with interest, will compel him to give back that which he has taken with unclean hands. ” Villa v. Rodriguez, 12 Wall. 323 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.