In re Berlin’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.2d 491 · 1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1965
2 federal appellate · 3 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 135 Pa. Super. 124 - Commercial Banking Corp. v. Active Loan Co. · 124 Pa. Super. 27 - Kaufmann & Baer v. Monroe Motor Line Transportation, Inc. · Taplinger v. Northwestern Nat. Bank · 147 Pa. Super. 496 - Ambler National Bank v. Maryland Credit Finance Co. · 155 Pa. Super. 261 - Equitable Credit Co. v. Stephany
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.
“* * * We see no reason why it [the legislature] may not protect the lien of a lender by making the recording of the lien upon the certificate of title sufficient notice of it to creditors. Certainly the Legislature intended to do so. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) A certificate of title shall contain ... a statement of any liens or encumbrances [upon the motor vehicle] . . . “(b) Where there are no liens or encumbrances . . ., the certificate of title shall be delivered to the owner, but otherwise it shall be delivered to the person holding the first lien .or encumbrance upon said motor vehicle . . ., and shall be retained by such person until the entire amount of such . . .. "lien, or encumbrance is fully paid by the owner . . . The outstanding certificate of title, when issued by the secretary showing a lien or ■encumbrance, shall be adequate notice to the Commonwealth, creditors, subsequent mortgagees, lienors, encumbrancers and purchasers that a lien against the motor vehicle . . . exists, and failure to transfer possession of the vehicle . . . shall not invalidate said lien or encumbrance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case of the transfer of ownership or possession of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer by operation of law, as upon inheritance, devise or bequest, order in bankruptcy, insolvency, replevin, or execution sale,’ * * *. 'The certificate of title, when issued by the secretary, showing a lien or encumbrance shall be adequate notice to the Commonwealth, creditors, subsequent mortgagees, lienors, encumbrancers and puchasers that a lien against the motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer exists, and failure to transfer possession of the vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer shall not invalidate said lien or encumbrance: * * (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Miller
How this case has been treated — in progress
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