Longwith v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1845
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2013
3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have said, has achieved a noble triumph over technical rules. 4 Kent, 158; 2 Story, sec. 1014. It will be conceded by all, who have :any knowledge of the Roman law, that the equitable doctrines now universally prevailing in regard to mortgages, have been derived' from that source. The civil law, in this as in many other instances, has been the great armory from which the courts of equity in England have supplied themselves with the most efficient weapons to ward off the severities of the stern and unrelenting common law.. ‘ < =» # * * * # ■ *”
1 later decision 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.