Cox v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2018
1 federal appellate · 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 Deaton v. Rush · Port Arthur Rice Milling Co. v. Beaumont Rice Mills · White v. McGregor · Mason v. Peterson · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Overstreet
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he object of all registration acts is to affect with notice only such persons as have reason to apprehend some transfer or incumbrance prior to their own, because none arising afterwards can affect them or their estate in the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“already owns the land ... is not required to search the records every morning in order to ascertain if something has happened that affects his interests or deprives him of his title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is settled by numerous decisions of our courts that [a duly recorded instrument] carries notice of its contents only to those who are bound to search for it....”
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.