Goldsby v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1938
1 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Baldwin v. Whitcomb
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■•“It seems to he an established principle that a deed' not a'4 first f'jrauduletlii •may .become so by long being concealed, because by its concealment, persons* •may 'be .induced to give credit to the grantor. In such eases the use that is* :made of .it relates back and shows the intent with which it was- madte. The* .omission-to place the deed on record or leaving' it in th'e hands a£' the1 grantor; - .or placing it in the hands of a third person to he produced) on suppressed aseexigencies may demand, are instances of delay that are within tile» rufe.””
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.