Ridings v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 212 · 1888
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1954 · most notably Gibbs v. Buck (1939), Palmer v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co. (1941)
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 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 Payne v. Hook · Jackson v. Ludeling · Thatcher v. Powell · Fairfield v. County of Gallatin · Fenn v. Holme
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We may therefore regard it as the settled jurisprudence of Louisiana that, at least from and since the passage of the law of 1855, an unrecorded mortgage has no effect as to third persons not parties to the act of mortgage or judgment, even though they had full knowledge of it. The registry seems to be intended not merely as constructive notice, but as essential to the validity of the mortgage as to third persons. “It is interesting to know that this result coincides with the doctrine of the French jurists, deduced from the Code Napoleon, article 2134 of which declares that, ‘between creditors, a mortgage, whether legal, judicial, or conventional, has no rank except from its inscription by the creditor on the records of the custodian, in the form and manner prescribed by law/ saving certain enumerated exceptions, not relating to the matter in hand. See Paul Pont, Privileges & Hypothéques, arts. 727, 728.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law which declares that all contracts affecting immovable property which shall not be recorded in the parish where the property is situated ‘shall be utterly null and void, except between the parties thereto’ (Laws, 1855, p. 335, No. 274), is clear and unambiguous. It was intended to settle in this state the question whether knowledge, possessed by a third person of a contract affecting immovable property should be considered, so far as such person is concerned, equivalent to the registry of the contract, and it settled that question in the negative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.