Starr v. . Wharton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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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.

1. ““By the express terms of the law, therefore, and under various decisions construing the same, these conditional sales, are to be regarded in this jurisdiction as chattel mortgages and void as to creditors and purchasers except from registration.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John Hetherington & Sons, Ltd. v. Rudisill

2. ““Since 1883 it has been the law of this state that, in order to be available against creditors or purchasers for value, a conditional sale must be reduced to writing and registered as in ease of chattel mortgages.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John Hetherington & Sons, Ltd. v. Rudisill