Reed v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1938
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 Henley v. Hotaling · Jeffery v. Hursh · Swetland v. Swetland · Bagg v. Jerome · Luizzi v. Brady's Estate
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.
““If an absolute conveyance be made and accepted in payment of an existing debt, and not merely as security for it, an agreement by the grantee to reconvey the land to the grantor upon receiving a certain sum within a specified time does not create a mortgage, but a conditional sale, and the grantee holds the premises subject only to the right of the grantor to demand a reconveyance according to the terms of the agreement. A debt either preexisting or created at the time, or contracted to be created, is an essential requisite of a mortgage. * * * Where there is no debt and no loan, it is impossible to say that an agreement to resell will change an absolute deed into a mortgage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blumberg v. Beekman““The rights of the parties to the conveyance must be reciprocal. If the transaction be in the nature of a mortgage, so that the grantor may insist upon a reconveyance, the grantee at the same time may insist upon repayment; but if it be a conditional sale, so that the grantor need not repurchase except at his option, the grantee cannot insist upon repayment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blumberg v. Beekman
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.