Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2003
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Marcus v. Hull · Torreyson, Et Vir v. Dutton · Rayonier, Inc. v. Lang · Watkins v. Burnstein
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.
““In deciding the question of whether a deed is, in fact, a mortgage, the court ‘may take into consideration the paper itself, or the instrument in connection with contemporaneous writings or agreements concerning the subject matter, or by the aid of extraneous evidence which will determine the decision of the question. The attitude of the parties relative to the conveyance after its execution may also be considered.’ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. White““All conveyances * * * or other instruments of writing conveying or selling property, either real or personal, for the purpose or with the intention of securing the payment of money, * * * shall be deemed and held mortgages, and shall be subj ect to the same * * * regulations, restraints and forms as are prescribed in relation to mortgages.””
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.