Scheen v. Chaffe’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “that the omission to register at that time only deprived the mortgage of force with respect to third persons, who at that date had mortgages or pledges upon the property of the husband that are so far superior to the claims of the wife. So far as relates to the husband and his property, the mortgage in favor of the wife, if there existed one, continued to exist without registry, and if recorded subsequently took effect as to third persons from the date of its registry. The evidence of plaintiff’s legal mortgage against her husband was recorded in the parish of Bed Biver in 1879, and its effect upon the immovables-in-that parish surrendered by the insolvent was properly recognized by the judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradley v. Claflin

2. “The validity of these .donations is not questioned by the donor nor his heirs, nor his creditors, and we cannot perceive any right in the creditors of Scheen to raise such objection. It is sufficient that the husband received or collected the funds in question as agent of his wife, and under color of the right claimed by her and recognized -by him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradley v. Claflin

3. “The greater part of the indebtedness claimed grows out of the husband collecting and using the moneys realized on promissory notes taken on the sales of lands, and alleged, as stated, to have been donated to the plaintiff.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bradley v. Claflin