114 N.C. App. 36 - Rowe v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2017
8 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 Wells v. Clayton · Finley v. Glenn Et Ux. · Morehead v. Harris · Yount v. Lowe · Reed v. Elmore
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 which the first to record an interest in land holds an interest superior to all other purchases for value, regardless of actual or constructive notice as to other, unrecorded conveyances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No deed, agreement for right-of-way, or easement of any character shall be valid as against any creditor or purchaser for a valu able consideration but from the registration thereof within the county where the land affected thereby lies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Clyde“the first purchaser to record his deed win[ning] the 'race to the Register of Deeds' Office' and thereby defeat[ing] the other's claim to the property, even if he has actual notice of the conveyance to the other purchaser.”
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.