Barr v. Granahan’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2017
9 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 Smith v. Pfluger · Helbig v. Bonsness · Droppers v. Hand · Hay v. Lewis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Wjhatever be the form of the transaction, if intended as a security for money, it is a mortgage, and the right of redemption attaches to it. “It was stated in Smith v. Pfluger (1905), 126 Wis. 253, 256 , 105 N.W. 476 : “ ‘The mere form of an instrument cuts but very little figure in respect to whether it is enforcible as a mortgage or not upon its character being called in question in a legal or equitable action, as those terms are used under our system. The purpose of the instrument is the controlling feature under all circumstances. If that is security and the facts of the matter are established in any action involving the subject, the instrument is treated as a mortgage and nothing else.’ ””
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.