Brandt v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1981
18 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 Spect v. Spect · Booth v. Hoskins · Hall v. Arnott · Hughes v. Davis · Taylor v. McLain
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the evidence sufficient to warrant the findings of the court that the deed from plaintiff to his brother Herman was given to secure $6,000 borrowed money; that it was, therefore, only a mortgage; and that Thompson knew the nature of said deed when he took his conveyance. And the court Was correct in holding that it did not pass the title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reavis v. Reavis
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.