Finance Security Co. v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““ * * * As to a wrongful repossession, it does not appear the plaintiff ever repossessed the car. The defendant gave a representative of the plaintiff a key to the automobile voluntarily, but the plaintiff never did take possession of the car. In fact, the defendant himself abandoned the car when he bought another automobile, leaving it on the street near the place of business where he purchased this second-car. Later, the vendor of the second automobile was notified by the Police • Department to remove any cars he had • on this street. * * * The defendant’s car was abandoned there and it, the plaintiff, then moved the car to a garage where it remained. The defendant’s attorney was notified by the plaintiff that the abandoned car had ■ been moved, and that either the defendant or his attorney could pick the car up at any time. The defendant himself testified he was not interested in the car and consequently there was no repossession by the plaintiff, but merely a protection of the property upon which it believed it had a valid chattel mortgage. * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Royal Furniture Co. v. Fillion

2. ““In the present case the automobile was never taken into the possession of the mortgagee, but even had this been done it appears the defendant agreed to a surrender of the automobile since he voluntarily gave the key to a representative of the plaintiff and told him he could get it. The evidence discloses this representative never did take possession of the automobile because he did not- secure a release from the defendant. All the plaintiff ever did was to move the automobile, after it had been abandoned, to a safe place of storage, and the defendant could have obtained this vehicle at any time by merely asking for it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hymel v. Ross