Rasmussen v. McKey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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.

1. ““The primal canon of statutory construction is that the language actually used be given its full and fair meaning, that unqualified words be taken without qualification, and that in the absence of ambiguity extraneous matter be not considered. Under this canon probably nothing more can profitably be said than, if recording is required, it is required.' If required for any purpose, or without purpose, how can it be said to be not required? If recording be not required, unless required for all purposes, it could never be said to be required where the instrument is valid between the immediate parties without recording.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ragan v. Donovan

2. ““A person sliall be deemed, to have given a preference, if, being insolvent, he has, within four months before the filing of the petition, * - * made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such * * * transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class. Where the preference consists in a transfer, such period of four months shall not expire until four mouths after the date of recording or registering of the transfer, if by law such recording or registering is required.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ragan v. Donovan

3. ““No mortgage, trust deed or other conveyance of personal property having the effect of a mortgage or lien upon such property, shall be valid as against the rights and interests of any third person, unless possession thereof shall be delivered to and remaiii with the grantee, or the instrument shall provide for the possession of the property to remain with the grantor, and the instrument is acknowledged and recorded as hereinafter directed; and every such instrument shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed a chattel mortgage.” Starr & C. Ann. St. c. 95, § 1.”

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