37 F. Supp. 495 - In Re Coombs’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
December 1957
most recently cited
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Bryson & Hardin v. Penix · Wilson v. Milligan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No mortgage * * * of personal property hereafter made shall be valid against any other person than the parties thereto, * * * unless the mortgage * * * be acknowledged or proved and recorded in the county in which the mortgagor * * * resides, * * * or unless the mortgage * * *, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county where the mortgagor * * * executing the same resides * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Alton Milk Co.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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