Stoddart v. Peirce’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 69 state decisions

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

1. ““1. Registration of vehicles, somewhat like the recording of real property, is designed, among other reasons, for the protection of purchasers and injured parties, principally by affording identification of vehicle and person; “2. To accomplish these purposes, registration must be speedy and substantially in compliance with the requirements set forth in the code section; “3. Bonded dealers are authorized to omit some of the requirements prescribed for all other transferees and transferors; “4. To implement the purpose of the statutes in those instances wherein a dealer need not immediately reregister, he may not place the vehicle upon the highway without attaching thereto a plate or tab identifying himself therewith, and may not transfer without giving notice thereof to the department in lieu of reregistration; “5. To avoid an otherwise inequitable result, the dealer is exempted from an owner’s liability Avhen he transfers a vehicle to a third party; “6. In order to prevent fraudulent practices (particularly the antedating of transfers) such a dealer is required to mail a notice of the transfer to the department within a specified time, as required of other transferors (although the time limitation differs); 13 “7. In the case of all transferors (individual and dealer, alike) exemption from owner’s liability becomes effective upon the mailing of such notice within the period provided. 14 ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 Cal. App. 2d 365 - Borjesson v. Simpson

2. “(a) No transfer of the title or any interest in or to a vehicle registered under this code shall pass, and any attempted transfer shall not be effective, until the parties thereto have fulfilled either of the following requirements: (1) The transferor has made proper endorsement and delivery of the certificate of ownership to the transferee as provided in this code and the transferee has delivered to the department or has placed the certificate in the United States mail addressed to the department when and as required under this code with the proper transfer fee, together with the amount required to be paid under Part 1 (commencing with Section 6001), Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code with respect to the use by the transferee of the vehicle, and thereby makes application for a transfer of registration except as otherwise provided in Sections 5905, 5906, 5907, and 5908. (2) The transferor has delivered to the department or has placed in the United States mail addressed to the department the appropriate documents for the registration or transfer of registration of the vehicle pursuant to the sale or transfer except as provided in Section 5602.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Green v. Roberts (In Re Stinson)

3. ““Without now documenting a complete historical narrative of these various provisions of the code, it may be noted that originally the provisions now found in Division III were adopted for the purpose of protecting innocent purchasers, and to afford identification of vehicles and of persons responsible in cases of accident and injury [citations]. That is, they formed a recording system, designed to accomplish in regard to this mobile type of personal property some of the things that the real estate recording statutes accomplish in regard to land and its improvements. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 Cal. App. 2d 814 - Buzard v. Justice Court