Holmes v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1959
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.
Relationships
Relies on Pugsley v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Trammell v. Craddock · Lane v. Beitz · Osborne v. Davies · New Hampshire Banking Co. v. Ball
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.
““When a court of equity acquires jurisdiction of an action brought to determine whether certain conveyances are, in fact, mortgages, although purporting to be deeds, it will retain jurisdiction for the purpose of adjudicating all differences between the parties growing out of the transaction.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.