Lilienthal v. Ballou’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1980
6 federal appellate · 4 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 George v. Pierce
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A pledge is a deposit of personal property as security (Civ.Code, § 2986), and is dependent on possession, and is not valid until the property is delivered to the pledgee (Civ. Code, § 2988). The delivery must be as complete as is required in case of sales of personal property by Section 3440 of the Civil Code, and change of possession must be continuous and open.” (quoting Lilienthal v. Ballou, 125 Cal. 183 , 57 P. 897 ) (emphasis added) $ jfc ;£ % $ . the change of possession must be actual not merely constructive. Bunting v. Saltz, 84 Cal. 168 , 24 P. 167 . It must be ‘open and unequivocal, carrying with it the usual marks and indications of ownership.’ Stevens v. Irwin, 15 Cal. 503 , 76 Am.Dec. 500 .” (emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A change of possession is not effected merely by having the former owner manage the property as the servant, agent or clerk of the pledgee. And this is especially so where there is so little outward sign of a change of ownership. Public policy requires a real and substantial compliance with the statute, and a failure should not be condoned for the hardships of a particular case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A pledge is a deposit of personal property as security (Civ.Code § 2986) and is dependent on possession, and is not valid until the property is delivered to the pledgee (Civ.Code § 2988).”
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.