Clinger v. Reliable Discount Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “"Whether it is said that defendants had `constructive' notice of the chattel mortgage recorded in Missouri covering the exact same car as was purchased by them, because it is imputed to them under the recording statutes, or whether it is said that the defendants had the `implied' notice which is `inferred from the fact that the person had means of knowledge, which it was his duty to use and which he did not use,' First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Miami v. Fisher, Fla. 1952, 60 So.2d 496, 499 , is unimportant."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 134 So. 2d 829 - Trumbull Chevrolet Sales Co. v. Seawright

2. “"* * * The fact remains that they have failed to comply with Section 319.27, supra, and this failure has deprived them of the right, under Florida law, to plead that they are a subsequent (or `innocent', as the statute expresses it) purchaser for value, without notice, of the car. They cannot now `escape the penalty for (their) own carelessness'. McQueen v. M. & J. Finance Corp., Fla., 59 So.2d 49, 51 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 125 So. 2d 134 - Castner v. Ziemer