Wilson v. Voight’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Koy v. Schneider (1920), Huddleston v. Grand County Board of Equalization (1996)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Robinson v. Elliott · Blakeslee v. Rossman · Horton v. Williams · Barnet v. Fergus · Matter of Trustees N.Y.P.E. Pub. School
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ When the mortgagee stipulates, either in the mortgage or out of it, that the mortgagor may sell the very thing composing his security, and retain the proceeds, he therebjr destroys every vestige of a valid statutory or common-law mortgage, and leaves himself in no better position than if it had not been executed. Besides, the inevitable tendency of the transaction is disastrous to other creditors of the mortgagor; for the effect is to hinder and delay such creditors, while the mortgagor makes way with the property, and leaves the general aggregate of his indebtedness undiminished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Stanard
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.