McLean & Curry v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1949
23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant objected to the introduction of any parol evidence to disprove the recitals in the deed of the considerations of which it was made. * It is well settled that the true consideration of a deed may be proved by parol evidence, and that a deed absolute on its face may be shown to have been executed in fact as a security for money, and for that reason be treated as a mortgage. Gibbs v. Penny, 43 Texas 563 . The rule does not depend upon the manner of statement of the consideration in the deed. The right is a substantial one not to be varied or defeated by any form of expression or character of recitals contained in the instrument itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradshaw v. McDonald
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.