Hooper v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1985
18 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 Moseley v. Moseley · Glass v. Hieronymus Bros. · Hieronymus Bros. v. Glass
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is immaterial whether the debt secured is that of the mortgagor or the debt of another. One person may give a mortgage on his lands to secure the debt of another. When the debt is paid the mortgagor is entitled to have his property released. If a deed intended as a mortgage is given the same reason would entitle the grantor to have the title revested upon payment of the debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The power of a court of equity to declare a deed absolute in form to be a mortgage only is unquestioned. The essential fact is that it was intended as security for debt. It implies a debt due the mortgagee and a conveyance accepted as security therefor. These facts may be proven by parol evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nowell v. Pate
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.