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← 44 MICH 113 - Putnam v. Reynolds

Putnam v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis

1880

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
July 1922
most recently cited

12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1922

12 state decisions

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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 Fearey v. Cummings · Shipman v. Seymour · McCredie v. Buxton

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

  1. “every mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage, of goods and chattels, which shall hereafter be made, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed in the office of the township clerk of the township, or city clerk of the city, or city recorder of cities having no officer known as city dferk, where the mortgagor resides, except when the mortgagor is a non-resident of the state, when the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed in the office of' the township clerk of the township, or city clerk of the city, or city recorder of cities having no officer known as city clerk, where the property is.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. People's Savings Bank v. Bates

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.