Farrow v. Farrow’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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

1. ““The sale, transfer or assignment, in bulk, of any part of or the whole of a stock of merchandise or merchandise and the fixtures pertaining to the conduct of any such business, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade and in the regular prosecution of the business of the seller, transferrer or assignor, shall be void as against the creditors of the seller, transferrer, or assignor, unless the seller, transferrer or assignor and the purchaser, transferee and assignee, shall, at least ten days before the sale, make a full detailed inventory and preserve the same, showing the quantity, and, so far as is possible with the exercise of reasonable diligence, the cost price to the seller, transferrer and assignor of each article to be included in the sale; and, also, unless the purchaser, transferee and assignee demands and receives from the seller, transferrer or assignor a written list of the names and addresses of the creditors of the seller, transferrer or assignor, with the amounts of the indebtedness due or owing to each, certified by the seller, transferrer or assignor under oath to be a full, accurate and complete list of his creditors and of his indebtedness; and also unless the purchaser, transferee or assignee shall, at least ten days before taking possession of such merchandise and fixtures or paying therefor, notify personally or by registered mail every creditor whose name and address is stated in said list, or of whom he has any knowledge, of the proposed sale a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Huckins v. Smith