Gregerson v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2011
1 district · 8 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 Duncan Townsite Do v. Lane · Gregerson v. Jensen · In Re the Estate of Sharp · Burgess v. Independent School District No. 1 · Shafer v. Killpack
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Effect of failure to record. Every conveyance of real estate hereafter made, which shall not be recorded as provided in this title, shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration of the same real estate, or any portion thereof, where his own conveyance shall be first duly recorded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not obtain the statutory protection enjoyed by subsequent purchasers ... because they did not qualify for that protection by recording their own conveyance (or contract) as required by [section] 57-38-38. As a result, the recording acts do not dictate the outcome of this controversy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Alpart from statute, transfers of the legal title to land rank, between themselves, according to priority in time.”
1 later decision 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.