Gallagher v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1992 · most notably Zimmer v. Fryer (1938), Dressel v. Weeks (1989)
41 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 Phelan v. Wilson · Levy v. Desposito · Macarty v. Landreaux · Thompson v. Whitbeck · Mechanics' Building Ass'n v. Ferguson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This nonauthenticity can make no difference, since a mortgage may validly consented by an act under private signature (C.C. art. 3305), and may be validly recorded without previous acknowledgment of signature. Succession of Elliott, 31 LA.ANN. 37.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Taylor““Nothing can be plainer than that their rights are perfect, except, of course, that the' several mortgages must take rank in the order in which they were created and recorded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caumont v. Hickey
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.