6 Smith & H. 254 - Wright v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2006
12 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
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“It is perceived there are five leading propositions embraced in the foregoing sections: (1) That, as between the parties themselves and their heirs and representatives, such instruments take effect and are good without regard to registration; (2) that they also take effect and are equally good as to all persons who have actual notice of them from the date of such notice, except creditors; (3) that as to creditors (that is, of the vendor) they are inoperative, ineffective, and practically nonexistent until they are noted for registration on the books of the register; (4) that as to all other persons (that is, all not embraced in the preceding classes) they are equally inoperative, ineffective, and nonexistent until so noted for registration; (5) that upon being so ‘noted for registration’ they become at once ‘notice to all the world,’ and so effective as to all the world.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is clear the language of our registration laws do not include nor control the question now before us. They only fix the rights, and give preference to existing or subsequent creditors or bona fide purchasers of, and from the maker of the deed. They do not profess to, nor do they in fact refer to, or regulate the rights of a creditor, as we have said, in a case like the present.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any of said instruments not so proved, or acknowledged and registered, or noted for registration, shall be null and void as to existing or subsequent creditors of, or bona fide purchasers from, the makers without notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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