Duke v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1998
10 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 Parrott v. Baker · Gilliard v. Johnston & Miller · Cooper v. Chamblee · Butts v. State · Simmons v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If these deeds were instruments executed to secure a debt, they vested the legal title to these lands in Duke, subject to be defeated by payment of the debt. They vested in Duke legal estates which he could sell, assign, or convey to secure debt. The lands are subject to levy and sale under judgments against the vendee. The purchaser at sheriff’s sale would acquire the right to receive the money due on the secured debt. [Citations.]” Also, in the case of Richey v. First Nat. Bank of Commerce, 180 Ga. 751 (4) ( 180 SE 740 ) this court said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kilgore v. Buice
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.