Paul v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1952
5 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 Rockwell v. Humphrey · Interior Woodwork Co. v. Buhler · Wilcox v. Coumbe · Smith v. Crosby · Lynch v. Ryan
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was settled in those cases that, in order to sustain such a conveyance as valid, it must be established by clear and satisfactory proof, upon closely scrutinizing the transaction, that the conveyance was voluntary on the part of the mortgagor; based on an adequate consideration; untainted by fraud; made without advantage being taken of the debtor’s necessity to drive a hard bargain; and that there was a discharge of the mortgage indebtedness or at least a binding agreement to consider that indebtedness paid and discharged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.