Castleman v. . Mayer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 3 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Chattel Mortgage — When Unfiled Instrument not Void as Against Creditors of Mortgagor. Where a chattel mortgage was given to secure advances, but not filed until after the mortgaged property, with the consent of the mortgagor, was delivered by the mortgagee to a sheriff to be sold under the mortgage, and the property was sold and the proceeds turned over to the mortgagee prior to the rendition of judgments against the mortgagor upon which .an action for the benefit of the judgment creditors is based, such mortgage must be held valid in the Court of Appeals, and not void as against the existing creditors of the mortgagor, when there is some evidence to support a finding of the trial court, affirmed by the Appellate Division, that the execution and delivery of the mortgage were accompanied by an immediate delivery of the property to the mortgagee, and followed by actual and continued possession thereof by him, without any fraudulent intent on the part of either ¡mortgagor or mortgagee to defraud the creditors of the mortgagor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Beede