Williams v. . Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““That a mortgage may be recorded after the death of the mortgagor, If he has in his lifetime made a delivery of it. His general creditors cannot, for that reason, claim that thé mortgage was inoperative as against them. Such a mortgage is good and binding upon the heir in like manner as upon the mortgagor, and the- same principle applies to chattel mortgages. Neither the heir in one case, nor the administrator in the other, is a third, person, but represents the intestate, and has no better title than he had.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walter A. Wood Co. v. Eubanks · Corbitt Buggy Co. v. Ricaud

2. “Prior to the passage of this act, a mortgage was valid even against creditors and purchasers, and it was required to be registered for their benefit. But as between the parties, their rights were undisturbed by the act, and they are left as they existed before its passage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Motor Co. v. . Jackson