McDuffie v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 382 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 445 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably John T. Moore Planting Co. v. Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co. (1908), Soniat v. Whitmer (1916)
20 federal appellate · 382 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 Baker v. Atkins & Wideman · Williams v. Hagan · Gravier v. Baron · Harang v. Plattsmier · Gibson v. Foster
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 445 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it cannot be said that one perpetrates a fraud who merely treats as utterly null and void a contract which the law in terms declares ‘shall be utterly null and void.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“shall be utterly null and void, except between the parties thereto,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is evident that whether a person acquires an interest in real estate to the extent of its value or part of its value as a mortgagee or as a vendee the principle involved in the application of the law of registry is the same; and hence if it he true that one may acquire a valid first mortgage, though he know at the time that as between the mortgagor and another there already exists an unrecorded mortgage upon the same property, it must also be true that one may acquire a valid title to such property, though he know that as between his vendor and another an unrecorded title has already been passed. The law makes no distinction between mortgages and sales or between eredicors and vendees or mortgagees; nor does it discriminate between those who acquire property with knowledge of unrecorded contracts and those who acquire without such knowledge. Its purpose is to establish and enforce as a matter of public policy upon the subject of the most important property right with which it deals the rule that unrecorded contracts affecting immovable property ‘shall be utterly null and void, except between the parties thereto.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.