Robert Steele's Lessee v. Jesse Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
26 U.S. 552 · 1828
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2020
3 federal appellate · 9 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff's deed not being recorded, the statute avoids it in terms as against all subsequent purchasers for valuable consideration without notice, whether their titles be recorded or not. If the defendants had held under a conveyance, executed by Jesse Spencer in obedience to the decree, thoir title deed, although not recorded, would by the terms of the statute prevail against the plaintiff’s prior unrecorded deed. A deed not being recorded avoids it. as against subsequent, but not as against prior, purchasers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Merine
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.