Franklin v. Sewall’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Otis v. Texas Co. (1922), Glover v. Abney (1925)
25 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 Allen, West & Bush v. Whetstone · 22 La. Ann. 14 - Watson v. Planters' Bank · Jones v. Jones · 40 La. Ann. 307 - Howe v. Powell · 16 La. Ann. 11 - Leblanc v. Bouchereau
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no question that, if the deed was not an absolute conveyance of the title, and defendant accepted it as security and a mortgage, the one who grants can, in equity, prove the fact by parol.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Becker v. Hampton““True, the price was less than half the value of the property, but it was not insignificant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. Broussard
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.