State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1990
5 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 Tyson v. Spearman · Fisher v. Levy · Buillard v. Davis · Fox v. Thibault · Macarty v. Bond's Administrator
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.
“"In order for the recorder to issue an unrestricted mortgage certificate affecting a particular piece of real property, he would be required to determine the present and former legal owners thereof over a long period of time and this would necessitate making a very thorough abstract of the title of the property. To insure accuracy in the description of the property and determine if it conflicts with or is affected by the description in other acts, it would also be necessary to have a survey of the land made. Furthermore, there may be unrecorded deeds and conflicting ownerships growing out of prescription and inheritance where heirs have taken possession of, mortgaged or sold property of a deceased without succession proceedings. To complete his record, the recorder would have to go beyond his office and secure affidavits and do other curative title work. The recorder might well be confronted, even with the assistance of able counsel, with a situation which would make it impossible for him to determine who were the lawful owners of property, as well as what encumbrances exist in their names." State v. Simmons, 1 So.2d 850 , at pages 852, 853 (La.App. 2 Cir.1941).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[I]t is the duty and responsibility of the sheriff to furnish the recorder of mortgages with a list of names of only the owners and former owners of the described property involved as shown by the records and written information in his possession and such additional names as the interested parties or their attorneys may furnish to him in writing in order that the mortgage certificate of the recorder of mortgages shall be as complete and comprehensive as possible covering all privileges, mortgages or encumbrances against the described property which is to be sold at public auction, and that the sheriff performs his duty and discharges his responsibility in accordance with Article 678 of the Code of Practice, upon reading such a certificate preceding the adjudication of the property." State v. Simmons, 1 So.2d 850 , at page 855 (La.App. 2 Cir.1941).”
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.