Bybee v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2014
13 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 Donaldson v. Grant · In Re Reynolds' Est. · Thompson v. Cheesman · Brown v. Skeen · Duerden v. Solomon
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term “conveyance” as used in this title shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing by which any real estate, or interest in real estate, is created, aliened, mortgaged, encumbered or assigned, except wills, and leases for a term not exceeding one year.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . This was not merely an equitable mortgage — a security transaction resting partially in parol and cognizable only in equity. The two instruments, taken together, constitute a formal mortgage, cognizable in a court of law. . .”
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.