146 Pa. Super. 357 - Commonwealth v. Willstein’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1974
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 Gianni v. Russell Co., Inc. · Speier v. Michelson · Bank of Hooversville v. Sagerson · Estate of Smith · 130 Pa. Super. 536 - Com. Ex Rel. Paige v. Smith, Warden
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. ■ It is always possible in this State to show by parol evidence that a judgment was confessed as collateral security, or that a transfer or assignment of personal property, including a judgment or mortgage, absolute on its face, was delivered as collateral security, or for collection, etc. It is done every day in banks’ and broker’s offices. To hold otherwise would' disrupt business as ordinarily carried on. To require the full transaction to be set out in the assignment or transfer would often defeat its purpose, and hence would not be expected to be embodied in it. . . . The evidence produced by the Commonwealth was sufficient to meet the requirements necessary to establish that the assignment was only for collection.” (p. 360.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Atwood
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.