Bevans v. Bolton’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1929 · most notably Hatch v. Oil Company (1879), Rice, Stix & Co. v. Sally (1903)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Bryson & Hardin v. Penix
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our statute requires a mortgage or deed of trust of.personal property, where the possession is retained by the grantor, to be recorded in the county in which the grantor resides. * * * The deed is absolutely invalid against a creditor or purchaser if it is not recorded. * * * The statute is imperative In requiring the deed to be recorded, or the possession of the property conveyed to be transferred, and all questions of actual notice are purposely avoided.””
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.