Simpson v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1916
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only evidence upon which a deed can be admitted to record is the certificate of proof, or acknowledgment of a court or officer, authorized by the statute to take such proof and acknowledgment. Sections 12 to 36, 22, 33, and 34, ch. 37. Digest; Jacoway v. Gault, 20 Ark. 190 [ 73 Am. Dec. 494 ] ; Biscoe v. Byrd, 15 Ark. 655 ; Blagg v. Hunter, 15 Ark. 246 ; Trammell et al. v. Thurmond et al., 17 Ark. 203 ; Heister’s Lessees v. Fortner, 2 Bin. [Pa.] 40 [ 4 Am. Dec. 417 ]; Johnston’s Lessee v. Haines, 2 Ohio (2 Hammond) 55 [ 15 Am. Dec. 533 ], As no certificate accompanied the deed of trust, it was not properly admitted to record, and consequently did not become constructive notice to the world.””
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.