Thomas v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 541 So. 2d 1057 - Mississippi Valley Title Ins. Co. v. Hardy (1989), Thomas v. Bank of Hurtsboro (1942)
27 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 Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock · Fies & Sons v. Lowery · Hendon v. White · Van Derslice v. Merchants' Bank · Cheney v. Nathan
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]wo elements are essential to the validity of a certificate to a conveyance of land, or a mortgage against land: (1) it must clearly identify the person who executed the conveyance; and (2) it must show the person making the acknowledgment appeared in person before the officer taking the acknowledgement and was personally known to him or was identified to him, as the statute directs, as the individual who executed the instrument.” (Citations omitted.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Briggs v. Glass“[A]n attempted conveyance of lands in a manner other than as required by the statute is void.”
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.