Brown v. Neilson’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1935
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Mastin v. . Marlow · Taylor v. . Hodges · Wooten v. . Hill · State v. . Garris · Smith v. . Coor
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.
““The stipulation does not comprehend, within its meaning, that the lessee will, after the property is acquired, execute a mortgage or other instrument incumbering the property for the benefit of the lessor. No original and independent contract creating a new lien can Ik1 inferred as the intention and contemplation of the parties, without doing violence to the language used. • It does not purport to be an agreement to give in the future, a lien on the property then owned by the lessees on the leased premises; but, by its own terms and provisions, the instrument evinces an attempt to establish a lien in future on property at the time not in esse. It is a contract, or attempt at contract, for a sale and transfer by way of mortgage, and not a contract to give a mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ryan v. Donley
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.