Book v. Beasly’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1973
17 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 Hargadine v. Henderson · O'Neill v. Capelle · Cobb v. Day · Franklin v. Ayer
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one now questions that a court of equity may decree -a conveyance, absolute in form, to be a mortgage only, and foreclose it as such' — nor that parol evidence is competent to show that such a deed was intended only as a security for debt. [O’Neill v. Gapelle, 62 Mo. 202 ; Cobb v. Day, 106 Mo. 278 ; Story Eq. Jur. (13 Ed.), sec. 1018; Hargadine v. Henderson, 97 Mo. 375 .] “The presumption of course arises that the instrument is what it purports to be on its face — an absolute conveyance of the land — and the burden is on the grantor to overcome this presumption and establish it as a mortgage. [3 Pomeroy’s Eq. Jur. (2 Ed.), see. 1196.]””
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.