Huffman v. R a’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(A) A ... mortgage ... shall be signed by the ... mortgagor .... The signing shall be acknowledged by the ... mortgagor .. .before a judge or clerk of a court of record in this state, or a county auditor, county engineer, notary public, or mayor, who shall certify the acknowl-edgement and subscribe the official’s name to the certificate of the acknowl-edgement. (B)(1) If a ... mortgage ... was executed prior to the effective date of this amendment and was not acknowledged in the presence of, or was not attested by, two witnesses as required by this section prior to that effective date, both of the following apply: (a) The instrument is deemed properly executed and is presumed to be valid unless the signature of the ... mortgagor ... was obtained by fraud. (b) The recording of the instrument in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the subject property is situated is constructive notice of the instrument to all persons, including without limitation, a subsequent purchaser in good faith or any other subsequent holder of an interest in the property, regardless of whether the instrument was recorded prior to, on, or after the effective date of this amendment. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not affect any accrued substantive rights or vested rights that came into existence prior to the effective date of this amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Menninger v. Mortgage Electronic Registration System (In Re Bowling)