King v. Fraser’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1958
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course the lien so acquired has priority over the mortgage. So far * * * there is no difficulty, but the matter is not so plain as to what is the effect of a mortgage recorded after the time upon general debts contracted after its execution without notice, and which are found in the condition of unsecured debts at the time the mortgage is recorded and its lien attaches. It is certainly the general rule that a bona fide lien, no matter when entered, from that time forth has priority over all debts which are then unsecured, without the least regard to their date.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Being without registration good as to the party who made it, the deed might, as to all other persons, be considered as if it had been executed on the day it was registered; in other words, as if it had been executed and acknowledged on that day. By delaying beyond a prescribed time, the grantee in a deed (or a mortgagee) has lost the right to insist that the tardy registration shall have relation to the date of the deed so as to provide against intervening claims; but why should he lose the benefit of registration from the day it was made?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We can conceive of no effect of recording other than the putting an end to the exemption which arose from want of notice, and continued until notice was given by that recording, that the registry giving them notice at the same moment gives'vitality to the mortgage as 'a lien with priority, as if the old mortgage had never existed and a new one had been executed and recorded on that day, the exemption arising from want of notice ceasing to exist as soon as notice is given;””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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