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1969

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
5
states following
February 1992
most recently cited

10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1992

10 state decisions

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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.

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

  1. “"The term `explicit' means that which is so clearly stated or distinctly set forth that there is no doubt as to its meaning." 251 N.E.2d 265, 266 .”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · Binkley Company v. Teledyne Mid-America Corporation
  2. “an interest in personal property or fixtures which secured payment or enforcement of an obligation. The retention or reservation of title by a seller of goods notwithstanding shipment or delivery to the buyer ... is limited in effect to a reservation of a security interest...”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Appeal of U.I.P. Engineered Products Corp. · In re Hillebrand Metal Works, Inc.
  3. “Each provision of this Article with regard to rights, obligations and remedies applies whether title to collateral is in the secured party or in the debtor.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Appeal of U.I.P. Engineered Products Corp. · In re Hillebrand Metal Works, Inc.

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.