Doggett v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1971
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Peugh v. Davis · Bell Silver Copper Min Co v. First Nat Bank of Butte · Bradbury v. Davenport · Watson v. Edwards · Gassert v. Strong
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.
““The oft-quoted legal maxim ‘once a mortgage, always a mortgage’ is undoubtedly to be read and considered with this limitation: ‘Once a mortgage, always a mortgage’ until the parties to it agree to treat it differently and do so treat it, in which case it loses its character as a mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Beverlin
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.