Sadler v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1982 · most notably 170 W. Va. 779 - Manchin v. Browning (1982), 129 W. Va. 851 - Ross v. Midelburg (1947)
33 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 McArthur v. Scott · Russell v. Southard · Conway's Executors and Devisees v. Alexander · Tavenner v. Barrett · Davis v. Demming
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is one circumstance which, if found to exist in transactions of this hind, determines . the question absolutely; namely, if after the deed is executed no debt remains due from the grantor to the grantee the instrument is not a mortgage.”
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.