Coyle v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Goldsmith v. McCoy (1938), Chachere v. Superior Oil Co. (1939)
5 federal appellate · 22 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 McDuffie v. Walker · Schneidau v. New Orleans Land Co. · Hyde v. Barron · Breaux v. Royer · Simmons v. Tremont Lumber Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law which declares that all contracts affecting immovable property which shall not be recorded in thé parish where the propérty 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 qiiestion in the negative.’’ .(Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldsmith v. McCoy““It is the settled jurisprudence of this state that third persons dealing with immovable property need only look to the public records, since notice or knowledge de hors the record is not equivalent to registry.””
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.