Matthews v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably Newport v. Chandler (1944), Kerby v. Field (1931)
33 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 Hays v. Emerson · Snell v. White · Jefferson v. Souter · Henry v. Henry · Harman v. May
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in this state that whenever, at the time of a sale, a vendor is indebted to the purchaser, and continues to be indebted after the sale, with the right to call for a reconveyance upon payment of the debt, a deed absolute on its face will be considered by a court of equity as a mortgage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Clayton
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.