Born v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1992
4 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 Brooks v. Garner · Grison Oil Corp. v. Lewis · Burnett v. Cole · Sandwich Mfg. Co. v. Zellmer · Rooney v. Koenig
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a mineral deed conveying one-half interest in the minerals contains covenants of warranty and the only reference to an outstanding mortgage to a third party is to except it from the covenants against encumbrances, such exception does not extend to or affect the covenants of warranty, and where the mortgage is subsequently foreclosed and the property sold and reacquired by the grantors from the purchaser at the foreclosure sale, the after-acquired title to one-half the minerals would inure to the grantee or to his benefit under the equitable doctrine of estoppel by deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.