Humphreys v. Royal’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions

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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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"This public policy is based upon the pronouncements to be found in our Revised Civil Code of 1870 providing that `No notarial act concerning immovable property shall have any effect against third persons, until the same shall have been deposited in the office of the parish recorder, or register of conveyances of the parish where such immovable property is situated.' Article 2264. The same rule applies to all sales made by sheriffs or other officers by virtue of any execution or other order of court, to all marriage contracts and all final judgments affecting real property. Articles 2265 and 2266. In the latter article it is declared that contracts, sales, and judgments not so recorded are ` utterly null and void, except between the parties thereto, ' and, as was very aptly pointed out in the case of Schneidau v. New Orleans Land Co., 132 La. 264 , 61 So. 225, 230 , the lawmakers thus provided `a method intended to be simple, sure, and inflexible, whereby those who desire to invest their money in real estate may be able to find, upon the public records, the evidence, and all the evidence, needed to establish or defend the title thereto.' "These articles are clear and free from any ambiguity and are subject to no exceptions other than that they do not apply `between the parties thereto.' It therefore follows that the unrecorded divorce judgment affecting the immovable property in controversy is utterly null and void as to the defendant here, a third party. "We do not think the”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Speights v. Nance · 526 So. 2d 1086 - Camel v. Waller

2. “the husband in this case, by his false and untrue statements made in the deeds that he was a single man, to take away from the wife her vested interest in the property.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 526 So. 2d 1086 - Camel v. Waller · 300 So. 2d 213 - Gregory v. Womack

3. “[I]t is the duty of a person who deals with a purchaser of immovable property to find out whether he or she was married or single at the date of such purchase.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 526 So. 2d 1086 - Camel v. Waller · 502 So. 2d 568 - Magee v. Amiss