West v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
4 district · 2 state decisions
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conveys no legal or equitable interest in fee or in life * * * but merely creates a lien which constitutes security for [a] debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A mortgage] merely creates a lien which constitutes security for the debt.”
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.