Dunham v. Cramer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels hereafter 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 and mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, having annexed thereto an affidavit or affirmation made and subscribed by tlie holder of said mortgage, his agent, or attorney, stating the consideration of said mortgage and as nearly as possible the amount due and to grow due thereon, be recorded as directed in the succeeding section of this act.” Compiled Stat. of N. J. vol. 1, p. 463.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Webster Loose Leaf Filing Co.

2. ““Loo Hera, the mortgagee in the foregoing mortgage named, being duly sworn, on his oath says that the true consideration of said mortgage is as follows, to wit, that deponent this clay loaned to the said Novelty Web Company, party of the first part hereto, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, for one year, with interest thereon at the rate of six pern centum per annum, and that this mortgage is given to secure the payment thereof, and deponent further says that there is due and to grow due on said mortgage the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, besides lawful interest thereon from the seventeenth day of June, Nineteen Hundred and Twelve.’’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. David v. Newman