James McCoy v. Zachariah Rhodes and His Wife Luminda Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
52 U.S. 131 · 1850
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2015
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Hart v. Eyck · Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church v. Jaques · Lee v. Darramon · Mary v. Lampré
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The next ground of defense relied on is the conveyance made by Rhodes to Montgomery of the 7th of December, 1839. It was recorded December 10, 1841. According to the statute law of Louisiana, no notarial act [deed] concerning immovable property has effect against third persons, until the same shall have been recorded in the office of the judge of the parish where such property is situated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The deed from Rhodes to Montgomery being a notarial act, it took effect on the 10th of December, 1841, against McCoy, the judgment creditor; and as the lien of the judgment, or judicial mortgage, attached the 24th of February, 1840, when the title was in Rhodes the debtor, this deed is of no force as against the judgment, nor are the subsequent deeds founded on it; * * (Italics mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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