Chandler v. . Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Carolina Beach Fishing Pier, Inc. v. Town of Carolina Beach (1968), Morehead v. Harris (1964)
31 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No conveyance of land, or contract to convey, or option to convey, or lease of land for more than three years shall be valid to pass any property interest as against lien creditors or purchasers for a valuable consideration from the donor, bargainor or lessor but from the time of registration thereof in the county where the land lies, or if the land is located in more than one county, then in each county where any portion of the land lies to be effective as to the land in that county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The Connor Act] was enacted for the purpose of providing a plan and a method by which an intending purchaser ... can safely determine just what kind of a title he is in fact obtaining.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the act requires recordation of all ... contracts to convey ... affecting the title to real property.”
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.