Beloate v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1972
20 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 · Fuller v. Wilkinson · Sanders v. Flenniken · Gibbs v. Bates · Commercial Nat'l Bank, Trustee v. Cole Building
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether an instrument is a deed or a mortgage the test is: Did a debt exist at the time the instrument was executed, and was the instrument of conveyance intended by the parties to secure the debt. It requires clear and decisive testimony to prove that a deed absolute in form was intended as a mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Webster
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.