Butt v. Ellett’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 544 · 1873
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1967 · most notably Carpenter v. Shaw (1930), Express Company v. Railroad Company (1878)
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 17 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The appellants had full notice of the rights of Sillers. They read the lease a few days after its execution. Ellett also notified them of his rights and claim. The cotton went impressed with his lien into their hands. When they sold it they took the proceeds in trust for his benefit and became liable to bim for the amount.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The mortgage clause in a contract of lease * * * could not operate as a mortgage because the crops to which it relates were not then in existence. When they. grew, the lien attached and bound them effectually.””
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.