Swan v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1932
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 Williams v. Hagan · Syndic of McManus v. Jewett
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sales or exchanges of real property and slaves by instruments made under private signature are valid against bona fide purchasers and creditors only from the day on which they are registered in the office of a notary or from the time of the actual delivery of the thing sold or exchanged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDuffie v. Walker““Actual knowledge of an unrecorded title on the part of a creditor is equivalent to knowledge or notice resulting from the registry of such title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDuffie v. Walker
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.