Collins v. Wilhoit’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1945 · most notably Harrison v. South Carthage Mining Co. (1902), Oester v. Sitlington (1893)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 23 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 Claflin v. Rosenberg · Wright v. McCormick · Bevans v. Bolton · Donahoe v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Ry. Co. · Knoop ex rel. Miller v. Nelson Distilling Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases where any personal property shall be sold to any person, to be paid for in whole or in part in installments, or shall be leased, rented, hired or delivered to another on condition that the same shall belong to the person purchasing, leasing, renting, hiring or receiving the same whenever •the amount paid shall be a certain sum, or the value of such property, the -title to the same to remain to the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer or deliverer, of ■the same, until such sum, or the value of such property, or any part thereof, •shall have been paid, such condition, in regard to the title so remaining until such payment, shall be void as to all subsequent purchasers in good faith, and creditors, unless such condition shall be evidenced by writing executed, acknowledged and recorded as provided in cases of mortgages of •personal property.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The two clauses are certainly alike in this, that they seek to prevent a false show of wealth. We think it will also appear from what is hereafter said, that each clause makes the described transaction void as to creditors, as a matter of law. The one seeks to protect creditors of the vendor, and the other creditors of the vendee, against a false appearance of ownership of personal property. Both clauses are based upon the same policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.