Chavez v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““By the civil law, which is recognized and established by legislative enactment as the rule of practice in this territory, in all civil cases the wife acquires a tacit lien or mortgage upon the property of her husband to the amount of the dota* property of which he became possessed through her. The recognition of this principle and the maintenance of the right of married women to such an ‘hipotecacion’ runs through all the elementary authorities on the civil-law. * * * Her mortgage arising out of her paraphernal and dotal rights stands upon the same footing as regards recording the evidence of them; her legal mortgage attaches in both eases without being recorded.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Chavez

2. “[T]he lien acquired by the mortgage upon the property ... [cannot] be divested either by the levying of process upon the mortgaged property, or the sale thereof by the mortgagor, or under execution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nationstar Mortg. LLC v. O'Malley