Coffman v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1926
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.
Relationships
Relies on Gage v. Whittier · Pratt v. Maynard · Gwin v. Smur
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One Darr gave to plaintiff a chattel mortgage on some cattle to secure a note of $730, Darr remaining in possession. Darr afterwards sold the cattle to defendant, and plaintiff instituted this action of replevin and depends upon his mortgage to sustain him. Defendant bought the cattle without actual knowledge of the mortgage; it was, however, duly recorded. Defendant's defense is that plaintiff authorized Darr, generally, to sell the cattle, and that after the sale was made to defendant he assented thereto, and the court so found. The point is made that the evidence in the cause did not justify this finding. After going over the evidence, we discover the finding is supported, and we will not disturb the resulting judgment rendered by the circuit court, if such result is justified by the law. We believe it is so justified. And it makes no difference whether the purchaser knew of the mortgage or not. [Pratt v. Maynard, 116 Mass. 388 ; Stafford v. Whitcomb, 8 Allen, 518 ; Jones on Chattel Mortgages, sec. 456.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That statute stands for the protection of the mortgagee and purchaser by inflicting a punishment for an attempt to defraud them. It does not affect a title which may be conveyed by the mortgagor any more than it would be affected by the mortgage itself without the statute. So, if plaintiff, as mortgagee, verbally authorized the sale of the cattle the title will be freed from the mortgage in the hands of a purchaser, notwithstanding the mortgagor might not, perhaps, have a defense if prosecuted for selling mortgaged chattels without the statutory written consent of the mortgagee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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