Mosko v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 8 state decisions

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

1. ““By the great weight of authority, both in cases involving chattel mortgages and in cases involving conditional sales, the lien of a mortgage or conditional sale contract properly perfected by recordation or filing or otherwise, and according to the law of the state in which it was executed and the property covered was found at the time, continues to have priority even after the removal of the property (at least if the removal is without the knowledge and consent of the mortgagee or conditional vendor) to another state, over the rights and claims acquired in such latter state of purchasers from or creditors of the mortgagor or conditional vendee.” Anno., Conflict of Laws, 13 A.L.R.2d 1318 . “By weight of authority a mortgage, if valid and properly executed and recorded according to the law of the state where the mortgage is executed and the property at the time is located, will be held valid even as against bona fide creditors and purchasers in another state to which the property is removed by the mortgagor, unless it contravenes the statute or settled law or policy of the forum.” 14 C.J.S. Chattel Mortgages § 15.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. PACIFIC FINANCE CORPORATION v. Axelsen