121 Ind. App. 457 - Norling v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1992
20 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 Philbin v. Carr · 81 Ind. App. 328 - Abel v. Love · 112 Ind. App. 1 - Cooper v. Tarpley · 117 Ind. App. 584 - Sheets v. Stiefel · 114 Ind. App. 627 - Coal Creek Coal Co. v. Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railway Co.
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.
““In all civilized countries the subject of real estate titles is regarded as of sufficient public importance to justify state regulation. The legislature of our state long ago adopted regulatory measures on this subject, declared that all conveyances of land shall be by deed in writing, and prescribed a plan by which the title to every tract of land may be made a matter of public record. §3936 et seq. Burns 1914, §2915 et seq. R. S. 1881. The legislature has provided also the manner in which lands may be devised and wills recorded. §3112 et seq. Burns 1914, §2556 et seq. R. S. 1881. A title evidenced by conveyances, wills, decrees of court, and proof of heirship, is commonly called a legal title —in contradistinction to an equitable title. It is the policy of the law to protect land titles created in accordance with the plan prescribed by the legislature. In this connection it should be observed that a prominent feature of the statute of frauds and of the statute of trusts is that they serve effectively to safeguard legal titles. §§7462 et seq., 4012 et seq. Burns 1914, §§4904 et seq., 2969 et seq. R. S. 1881. “A record title is the highest evidence of ownership, and is not easily defeated.””
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.