Hambrick v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1952
14 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 Lewis v. Cocks · Prout v. Hoge · Randle v. Boyd · Lyon v. Powell · Lawson v. Alabama Warehouse Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a bill to foreclose a mortgage, the only proper parties are the mortgagor and the mortgagee, and those who have acquired any interest from them subsequent to the mortgage. One who claims title from a stranger, or even from the mortgagor, anterior to the date of the mortgage, should not be brought in as a party defendant. This point was directly decided in Randle v. Boyd, 73 Ala. 282 ; and has been several times since reaffirmed. McHan v. Ordway, 82 Ala. 463 ; Lyon v. Powell, 78 Ala. 351 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.