Hauselt v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 401 · 1881
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 17 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1960 · most notably York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B (1906), Frank Thompson v. Henry Fairbanks (1905)
24 federal appellate · 17 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Stewart v. Platt · Cook v. Tullis · Yeatman v. Savings Institution · Gregory v. Morris
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except in cases of attachments against the property of the bankrupt within a prescribed time preceding the commencement of proceedings in bankruptcy, and except in cases where the disposition of property by the bankrupt is declared by law to be fraudulent and void, the assignee takes the title subject to all equities, liens, or incumbrances, whether created by operation of law or by act of the bankrupt, which existed against the property in the hands of the bankrupt * * * He takes the property in the same ‘plight and condition’ that the bankrupt held it.” Yeatman v. Savings Institution, 95 U. S. 764 , 24 L. Ed. 589 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such a lien (mortgage) is good between the parties, without a change of possession, even though void as against subsequent purchasers in good faith without notice, and creditors levying executions or attachments; and if followed by a delivery of possession, before the rights of third persons have intervened, it is good absolutely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cowan v. . Dale““ The clause providing for security must be held to mean something] and it declares that the skins themselves, before delivery of possession to Hauselt under the contract, for purposes of sale, shall be considered as security.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hossack v. Graham
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.