White v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Baker v. McCarthy · Commercial Union Assurance Co. v. Brown Co. · Summit Electric, Inc. v. Pepin Bros. Construction, Inc. · Gosselin v. Archibald · Fletcher v. Chamberlin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deed absolute on its face may be proven by parol evidence to have been intended by the parties to operate as security for a debt... . The intentions of the parties at the time of the conveyance are determinative, . . . but those intentions may be inferred from the situation of the parties and their actions after the contract was executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fisher v. Koper“at the time of the conveyance are determinative,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the force and effect of a deed in fee simple”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.