Killam v. March’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Club (1945), Commonwealth v. Goldman (1985)
2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Tyler v. Judges of Court of Registration · Vigeant v. Postal Telegraph Cable Co. · McCarthy v. Lane · City of Boston v. Quincy Market Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. · Armburg v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But no deed, mortgage or other voluntary instrument ... purporting to convey or affect registered land, shall take effect as a conveyance or bind the land, but shall operate only as a contract between the parties, and as evidence of authority to the recorder or assistant recorder to make registration. The act of registration only shall be the operative act to convey or affect the land ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Although there are many differences between the two systems it is inconceivable that circumstances that would amount to bad faith with respect to unregistered land, namely, acquiring title with notice of an unrecorded interest, would constitute good faith in the case of registered land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emmons v. White
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.