Berger v. Bierschbach’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2008
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McNamara v. Culver · Holden Land & Live Stock Co. v. Inter-State Trading Co. · Moore v. Wade · Jones v. Jones · Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. Deering
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.
“We have previously said that the registration fee required to be paid on mortgages of real property before they can be recorded is essentially a tax, and that it was so recognized by the legislature at the time of its enactment. Thus the statute is intrinsically a revenue measure. Failure to pay the registration fee, or tax, does not vitiate an instrument given as security, even though its enforcement as a mortgage may not be entered by any court until the fee has been paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.