Mottaz v. Keidel’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2019
7 federal appellate ·
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 Eaton v. Hobson · 39 Ill. App. 3d 379 - Peterson v. Ziegler · 283 F. Supp. 620 - In Re Trahan · 59 Ill. App. 3d 14 - Huber Pontiac, Inc. v. Wells · In the Matter of Richard Eugene Littlejohn and Patricia Lee Littlejohn, Bankrupts. Commerce Bank, N. A. v. William R. Chambers, Trustee in Bankruptcy
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a security interest in a vehicle of a type for which a certificate of title is required is not valid against subsequent transferees or lienholders of the vehicle unless perfected as provided in this Act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTEREST (a) Unless excepted by Section 3-201, a security interest in a vehicle of a type for which a certificate of title is required is not valid against subsequent transferees or lienholders of the vehicle unless perfected as provided in this Act. (b) A security interest is perfected by the delivery to the Secretary of State of the existing certificate of title, if any, an application for a certificate of title containing the name and address of the lien-holder and the date of his security agreement and the required fee. It is perfected as of the time of its creation if the delivery is completed within 21 days thereafter, otherwise as of the time of delivery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This may indeed be the result ..., but the Bank has only itself to blame for the failure to perform its statutory duty prescribing application for a new title. The Illinois law applicable to secured transactions in personal property, including motor vehicles, places a strong emphasis on the need for diligence in perfection of the security interest in accordance with the statutory method... The strong policy favoring diligence in perfection (and the consequent gain in certainty and regularity) outweighs the possibility here of “unjust enrichment” or a “windfall.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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