Merryweather v. Pendleton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The very essence of a mortgage is a subsisting obligation to pay.”
• \The very essence of a mortgage is a subsisting obligation to pay. It matters not whether the debt existed before or was created by the transaction in question. But debt there must be.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Merryweather v. Pendleton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1962-06-14· cited 36×
• Best Fertilizers of Arizona, Inc. v. Burns
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1977-04-26· cited 19×
• Nichols v. Elkins
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1965-11-29· cited 18×
• De Anza Land and Leisure Corp. v. Raineri
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1983-04-14· cited 15×
• Wooldridge Construction Co. v. First National Bank
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1981-07-16· cited 15×
• Pioneer Annuity Life Insurance v. National Equity Life Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1988-07-19· cited 13×
• Atkinson v. Atkinson
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1965-09-27· cited 13×
• ARIZ. S. TAX COMM. v. Southwest Kenworth, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1977-01-04· cited 6×
• Downs v. Ziegler
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1970-12-07· cited 5×
• Bostwick v. Jasin
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1991-11-14· cited 5×
• Stenquist v. JMG Holdings LLC
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2016-08-25· cited 2×
• Farinash v. Tuscany 2 Residential, LLC (In Re Martin)
  E.D. Tennessee· 2009-11-13

Cites

51 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Galena Oaks Corporation v. Frank Scofield, Collector of Internal Revenue
  Fifth Circuit· 1954-12-29· cited 208×
• Russell v. Southard
  Supreme Court· 1851-12-31· cited 156×
• Employer's Liability Assurance Corporation v. Lunt
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1957-06-18· cited 69×
• Lehmann v. Acheson
  Third Circuit· 1953-07-29· cited 62×
• Britz v. Kinsvater
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1960-05-04· cited 62×
• Child v. Child
  Utah Supreme Court· 1958-12-20· cited 50×
• Bohmfalk v. Vaughan
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1960-12-07· cited 49×
• Maricopa County v. Corporation Commission of Ariz.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1955-10-31· cited 46×
• Arizona State Tax Com'n v. Garrett Corporation
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1955-12-08· cited 45×
• Sanders v. Brown
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1951-12-17· cited 44×
• Gillespie Land & Irrigation Co. v. Jones
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1945-12-17· cited 38×
• Carrillo v. Taylor
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1956-06-26· cited 31×
• Cousins v. Crawford
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1953-02-26· cited 28×
• Warner v. Gosnell
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1956-01-19· cited 26×
• Ruby v. United Sugar Companies, S. A.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1941-02-03· cited 22×
• Handrub v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1929-03-09· cited 22×
• Kennedy v. Morrow
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1954-03-22· cited 21×
• Rogers v. Greer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1950-06-19· cited 20×
• De Wulf v. Bissell
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1957-10-15· cited 20×
• In Re Meckley
  Third Circuit· 1943-07-22· cited 19×