Smith v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1946
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the law imposed upon the clerk the duty of properly indexing all deeds in his office, appellant had a right to presume that no deed from Goosling to Williamson had been lodged for record in that office. Appellant alleges that he made such search himself; not only so, but he employed a reputable firm of attorneys to search for him, and that they likewise failed to find the index of the deed from Goosling to Williamson where it should be and reported to him that no such deed was of record. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ The' clerk of each county ¡court shall make and keep an alphabetical cross index of all conveyances heretofore or hereafter recorded in his office, and he shall, when a! mortgage or deed of trust, or any other conveyance, lease or contract is lodged in his office for record, at once, and before attending to any other business, place the names of the parties to the same upon the cross index in his office, and shall, within six days thereafter, record, the same. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It was the clerk’s duty to index the mortgage properly on the cross index. The fact that the mortgage in question was indexed and recorded in one of the individual mortgage books was not a compliance with the law. It wras not incumbent upon appellee or his attorneys to examine each mortgage book or the index thereof for the purpose of discovering the mortgage in question. They had the right to rely on the cross index required by the statute to be kept. ’ ’”
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.