Gill v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. “gee. '41. No personal property, of any description whatever, whereof the vendor,, mortgagor .or .donor (shall. remain in, possession, shall pass, alter or. change, or any property therein he transferred to any purchaser, mortgagee or donee, unless by bill of sale or mortgage acknowledged and recorded as herein provided; but nothing herein shall be construed to extend to any sale or gift, where the same is accompanied by delivery, nor to invalidate such transfer as between the parties thereto.” “Sec. 43. A bill of sale or chattel mortgage, if acknowledged within this state, may be acknowledged before any officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds within this state in the same manner as deeds are acknowledged, or acknowledged as certified.” “See. 45. Bills of sale shall be recorded in the county or city where the. vendor or donor resides within twenty days from the date thereof. If the vendor or donor resides out of the state, and the personal property conveyed by such bill of sale, is located in this state, then such bill of sale shall be recorded in the county where such property is located, or in Baltimore city, if it be located in said city, within twenty days from the date of such bill of sale. “Sec. 46. A mortgage of personal property shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded as bills of sale.” “Sec. 48. Mortgages of personal property shall be valid and take effect, except as between the parties thereto, only from the time of recording; and in case of more ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Millikin v. Second Nat. Bank of Baltimore

2. ““Though the Legislature has changed the law with regard to the registration of deeds or conveyances of real estate, * * * it has never, in any respect, modified the act of 1729, to prevent secret sales, mortgages, and gifts of goods and chattels, of which the vendor, mortgagor, or donor, should remain in possession, but these have continued exposed to the stern, but whole-somp provisions of that act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Millikin v. Second Nat. Bank of Baltimore