Douglass v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1981
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 Teal v. Walker · Kortright v. . Cady · Bell Silver Copper Min Co v. First Nat Bank of Butte · Spect v. Spect · Lobenstein v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An executed oral agreement to deliver the possession of the mortgaged property is valid. Such agreement, whether made at the time of the execution of the mortgage or subsequent thereto, is an independent agreement and no part of the mortgage” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gandrud v. Hansen
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.