Battershall v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1914
6 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deed of quitclaim and release, of the form in common use, shall be'sufficient to pass all the estate which the grantor could lawfully convey by a deed of bargain and sale.” Sec. 4231: “Every conveyance of real estate within this state * * * which shall not be recorded, * * * shall be void as against any subsequent purchasers in good’ faith, and for a valuable consideration,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Runyon v. Smith
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.