Clement v. . Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1984
5 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
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“The deed of trust in controversy was properly registered in a book containing real estate conveyances. It was indexed and cross-indexed under the letter “H,” which is the “appropriate letter of the alphabet,” and the cross-index referred to the page, title, or number of the book in which the instrument had been duly registered. The statute, upon its face, apparently, does not contemplate the division of the index into subheads. This division of the index into subheads has been installed in many counties for the convenience of parties who are compelled to examine the public records. Undoubtedly the method of subdividing the index is modern and efficient, and relieves the members of the profession, particularly, from a vast amount of unnecessary labor in passing upon titles; but, under the statute, as written, the only requirement is that the instrument should be indexed and cross-indexed under the “appropriate letter of the alphabet.” This has been done. As to whether the statute should be amended so as to include “catchheads” or subdivisions of the appropriate letter is not a matter for us to determine. It is our duty to construe the law as it is written.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“C. S., 3560, apparently contemplates that the index provided by the county commissioners shall be one book, constituting a general index of all instruments admitted to registration or required to be registered. The only requirement of cross-indexing specified in the statute is that such index and cross-index shall `show the name of each party under the appropriate letter of the alphabet, and reference shall be made opposite each name to the page, title, or number of the book in which is registered any instrument.'”
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.