Woolson v. Pipher’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1937
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hansher v. Hanshew
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is certain, we think, that the mere written assignment ol’ the goods, executed as it was in another state, did not give the appellant [the assignee], any such title to the property as would defeat the liens of attaching creditors of the assignors. Possession of the goods was indispensable to the perfection of appellant’s title, and, before the delivery of the possession to him, the lien of the attaching- creditors on the goods intervened.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schroder v. Tompkins
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.