Schaeppi v. Glade’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The certificate on the instrument is expressly made evidence of the facts stated in it, and in this case the numbers on the instruments are not inconsistent with the certificate that they were filed at the same time. The fact that they did not receive the same number would not tend to show that they were not filed at the same time, since they could not receive the same number. If instruments are received by mail in the same envelope, or delivered in the same parcel, or handed to the recorder together, the numbers must necessarily be different. It is proper, and sometimes desirable, to file different instruments at the same time, and it could not be the intent of the statute that they could not be filed simultaneously and that there must be a priority to be determined by the numbers. It cannot be that a recorder can have any power to affect the rights of parties by numbering the instruments, or that priorities should be fixed by the mere chance of numbering instruments received at the same instant of time.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 48 Ohio App. 403 - Franks v. Moore