Walters v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every transfer of personal property * * * is conclusively presumed, if made by a person having at the time the possession or control of the property, and not accompanied by air immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change of possession of the things transferred, to he fraudulent, and therefore void, against those who are his creditors while he remains in possession, etc.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cochran Grocery Co. v. Harris · Love v. Schmidt

2. ““There was nothing in the evidence from which it could be fairly and reasonably inferred that any open, positive change of possession ever took place. There was nothing done by which the general public could discern any outward signs of a change in possession. There was no evidence of such a delivery as the circumstances of the case would reasonably admit of; hence the court was bound to hold, as a matter of law, that the attempted sale or transfer of the wheat was fraudulent and void as to creditors of John Walters.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Love v. Hill

3. ““It means that the sale shall be open and public; that the world may be apprised of the change of ownership. The change of possession must be actual and continued, and not subject to some secret trust between the seller and the buyer.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Love v. Hill