Warner v. Littlefield’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1932 · most notably Dearing v. . McKinnon Dash Hardware Co. (1900), Brown v. Grand Rapids Parlor Furniture Co. (1893)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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 Preston v. Spaulding · Crow v. Beardsley · Weber v. Mick · Farwell v. Nilsson · Kendall v. Bishop
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The difference between a chattel mortgage and a common-law assignment is that one is a conditional transfer of property, and the other is an absolute transfer. From one, the debtor, the attaching or execution creditor, or a subsequent mortgagee has a right to redeem; from the other there is no right of redemption.””
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.