Mohr v. Sands’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1978
12 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 Tripp v. National Shawmut Bank · Praeger v. Emerson-Brantingham Implement Co. · Finance & Guaranty Co. v. Defiance Motor Truck Co. · Dinsmore v. Maag-Wahmann Co. · Winakur v. Sapourn
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.
“"If we approach the matter from the point of view of the purpose of the recording statutes involved, we find that they serve primarily to give protection against the consequences of false or misleading appearances of ownership based upon the possession of the chattels. * * *. The requirements of Section 74 [now 66] of Article 21, that a conditional contract of sale * * * must be recorded at the place of residence of an individual vendee * * * emphasize the view that the statute is concerned primarily with appearances based upon the vendee's possession of the chattel * * *. Likewise, under Section 49 [now 48] et seq. of Article 21, it is the danger of appearances from the possession of the vendor or mortgagor, which continues despite a change of ownership or the creation of a lien, with which the statute is concerned."”
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.