Brigham v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2007
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gale v. Gould · People ex rel. Austin v. Curtis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nevertheless a man may give a voluntary mortgage if he chooses, and it is fraudulent only as to those who are or would be defrauded by it. Gale v. Gould, 40 Mich. 515 . And no one would be defrauded, in contemplation of law, who was merely a subsequent mortgagee with notice, actual or constructive, of the voluntary instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goethe v. Gmelin
How this case has been treated — in progress
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