King v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2012
4 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 Community National Bank v. Dawes · Gillespie v. Rogers · O'Meara v. Gleason · Sykes v. Keating
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deed is considered to be recorded when it is noted by the recording officer as having been received for recording, if the recording officer ‘places upon it his certificate that it has been so received, even though he afterwards fails in his duty by recording it inaccurately ... or even by altogether suppressing it from the records, yet in contemplation of law the whole world has constructive notice of it, just the same as if it had been accurately copied in full upon the records.’ Gillespie v. Rogers, 146 Mass. 610, 612 (1888).””
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.