Taylor v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1931
3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff’s case is devoid of all equity, and both the letter'and spirit of the law require that these defendants should be protected in the enjoyment of the property they have in good faith and for a full and valuable consideration purchased and paid for. The statute (2 How. Stat. § 5683) does not require a person, in order to keep within its provisions in a case like this, to examine beyond the registry of deeds for outstanding claims when he makes his purchase. It is very clear from the record that both the guardian and executors acted in perfect good faith, and, so far as we can discover, for the best interests of the wards as well as that of the estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Otis v. Kennedy
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.