Brogan v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1992
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Keller v. Ashford · Wicker v. Hoppock · Locke v. Homer · Green v. Stone · Crowell v. Hospital of Saint Barnabas
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Language in a deed is presumed to be chosen by the grantor and it is within his power to make the deed so plain and intelligible in its language as to show an assumption or general promise to pay, if such was his intention and was agreed upon between the parties; and in case of doubt, it will be presumed the deed did not intend a present presumption of, and agreement to pay, the mortgage on the part of the grantee. Jones on Mortgages (8th Ed.) Section 934.””
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.