Staples v. Hendrick’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably Eichman v. J & J Building Co. (1990), Atlas Realty Corporation v. House (1936)
1 federal appellate · 45 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 Swift v. Edson · Derby Bank v. Landon · Waterbury v. Inhabitants of Darien
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right of a mortgagee to a deficiency judgment after strict foreclosure has always been coupled . . . with some provision for fixing the actual value of the property as of the date of the foreclosure, and for making that valuation a conclusive basis for determining the existence and amount of any claimed deficiency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . the unpaid portion of the debt or debts of the party or parties upon whose motion the sale was ordered . . .”
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.