Owens v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1964
1 district · 12 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 Holmes v. Langston & Woodson · Williamson v. Orient Insurance · Pitts v. Maier · Bellerby v. Thomas · 7 Ga. App. 214 - Ellison & Chew v. Wilson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A paper stipulating that tbe maker conveys certain described personalty to secure a debt, and that upon payment of tbe debt tbe creditor will reconvey tbe property to tbe debtor, is a bill of sale to secure a debt, and not a mortgage. The stipulation for a reconveyance of the property is not a defeasance clause, such as a provision that the instrument would be void upon payment of the debt. Upon payment of the debt a reconveyance can be compelled, but until this is done the instrument remains operative as a bill of sale, even though the debt is paid.””
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.