Armstrong v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1947
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person purchasing or taking any security against real estate in good faith and without record notice from one holding under an instrument purporting to be a conveyance, but intended as security for the payment of money; and which instrument has been duly recorded without any other instrument explanatory thereof, shall be protected to the extent of the purchase price paid or actual outlay occasioned with lawful interest, against all persons except those in actual possession at the time of such purchase or outlay””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Walter
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.