Phillips v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably London Towne Condo. Ass'n v. LONDON TOWNE (2006), Cimarex Energy Co. v. Mauboules (2010)
28 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 McDuffie v. Walker · Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. · Martin v. Schwing Lumber & Shingle Co. · 23 Ala. App. 258 - Johnson v. State · Land Development Co. v. Schulz
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create rights in a positive sense, but rather has the negative effect of denying the effectiveness of certain rights unless they are recorded.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he primary concern of the public records doctrine is the protection of third persons against unrecorded interests.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"No ... mortgage ... relating to or affecting immovable property shall be binding on or affect third persons or third parties unless and until filed for registry in the office of the parish recorder of the parish where the land or immovable is situated; and neither secret claims or equities nor other matters outside the public records shall be binding on or affect such third parties."”
3 later decisions 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.