In re Beeg’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. ““As between landlord and tenant, the intention to annex is the criterion; but, as between vendor and vendee, the intention of the owner may be of little weight, as there are some things whieh are so essentially a part of the freehold, and so entirely indispensable as a part of the property for the purpose for which it is intended, that the secret purposes of the owner cannot control the rights of others, the latter’s rights depending more upon the inference to be drawn from what is external and visible. [Harmony Bldg.] Association v. Berger, 99 Pa. 320 ; Bank v. North, 160 Pa. 303 , 28 A. 694 . “In Pennsylvania, between vendor and vendee, heir and executor, debtor and execution creditor, mortgagee or judgment creditor and assignee for benefit of creditors, and, we might add, as between judgment creditors and the general creditors in bankruptcy, machinery of a factory, which is a necessary part of it, and without which it would not be a fully equipped establishment, is a fixture to be regarded a part of the freehold, subject to the lien of a mortgagee or judgment creditor as part of the realty. Voorhis v. Freeman, 2 Watts & S. [Pa:] 116, 37 Am. Dec. 490 ; Morris’ Appeal, 88 Pa. 368 ; Witmer’s Appeal, 45 Pa. 455 , 84 Am. Dec. 505 ; Wilder v. Kent (C. C.) 15 F. 217 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Newport Planing Mill Co.