137 Ga. App. 82 - Simson v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2003
11 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 Linwood Harvestore, Inc. v. Cannon · Godfrey v. Gilsdorf · 124 Ga. App. 310 - Christopher v. McGehee · Capital Automobile Co. v. Ward · 85 Ill. App. 2d 64 - Humphrey Cadillac & Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Sinard
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2) Any entrusting of possession of goods to a merchant who deals in goods of that kind gives him power to transfer all rights of the entruster to a buyer in ordinary course of business. (3) ‘Entrusting’ includes any delivery or any acquiescence in retention of possession regardless of any condition expressed between the parties to the delivery or acquiescence and regardless of whether the procurement of the entrusting or the possessor’s disposition of the goods have been such as to be larcenous under the criminal law.” (emphasis supplied). A good discussion of this “entrusting” statute may be found in Simson v. Moon, 137 Ga.App. 82 , 222 S.E.2d 873 (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in Georgia.' Arnold v. Conner, 100 Ga. App. 503 (1) ( 111 SE2d 638 ); 77 CJS 1099, Sales, § 291. While the spirit of this rule has been carried forward in Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC § 2-403(1)), a prominent exception to it is found in the `entrusting' provision of that Code section, UCC § 2-403 (2) and (3).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The issue is whether or not there was an `entrusting' of the truck under UCC § 2-403 (2) and (3) . . ., so as to allow Hollowell to pass good title to Simson. The rule in Georgia under its former Sales Act (Code Ann. § 96-111) had been, `The seller can convey no greater title than he has himself. There is no”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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