Hellman v. Capurro’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1996
12 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 Whitestone Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Allstate Insurance · Rosenbaum v. Funcannon · Holloway v. Barrett · Northwestern National Insurance Co. v. Mildenberger · Reno Electrical Works, Inc. v. Ward
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Finding that no action for a deficiency judgment will lie for the reason that the deed of trust beneficiary purchased the property and obtained value in excess of the indebtedness is equivalent to finding that the trustor’s debt has been extinguished. [Citations omitted.] A mortgagee or a beneficiary to a deed of trust is entitled to only one satisfaction of his debt. [Citations omitted.]... It cannot in fairness be asserted that the [trustor’s] obligation to the [beneficiary] remains unsatisfied____”
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.