Isley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Breeden v. Richmond Community College (1997), Hice v. Hi-Mil, Inc. (1981)
25 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 Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · Williams v. . Williams · Harris v. Bingham · Furst v. . Merritt · Perkins v. Perkins
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty to read an instrument or to have it read before signing it, is a positive one, and the failure to do so, in absence of any mistake, fraud, or oppression, is a circumstance against which no relief may be had, either at law or in equity.” See also, Williams v. Williams, 220 N.C. 806 , 18 S.E. 2d 364 (1941).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Gurkin“There is no rule in our system of jurisprudence that has a greater tendency to maintain the stability of titles and the security of investments than that which upholds the integrity of a solemn written deed ...”
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.