Ferrell v. Childress’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1937
12 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 Campbell v. Kerrick · Cain v. Gray · Burton-Whayne Co. v. Farmers & Drovers Bank
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Being, however, a deed in form and expression, and duly signed and delivered by the grantor, and accepted by the grantee, it was effective as between them, and those claiming under them, to pass the legal title to the land. Fitzhugh v. Croghan, 2 J. J. M. 433; Shoptaw v. Ridgeway, 22 Ky. L. R. 1495, 60 S. W. 723 ; Robinson v. Gray, 29 Ky. L. R. 1297, 97 S. W. 347 ; Burton-Whayne Co. v. Farmers & Drovers Bank, 130 Ky. 393 ; Cain v. Gray, 146 Ky. 402 ; 1 C. J., page 770; Devlin on Deeds, section 465; Tiffany’s Modern Law of Real Property, sec. 405. “Manifestly, if one has made an ineffectual attempt to make a conveyance, and has signed an instrument of writing with that purpose, but his effort fails because of the failure of an official to make the proper certificate, the writing signed by him is not void for all purposes. It is, nevertheless, if in other respects valid, a lawful obligation; and, while it is not a recordable instrument, and does not impute notice to strangers although recorded, it is good, as between the parties and those having actual notice thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Noble
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.