Sargent v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. ““Section 19, Uniform Sales Act, provides that unless a different intention appears, the property in the goods passes to the buyer when an unconditional contract is made for the sale of specific goods in a deliverable state. This was the rule at common law and prevailed in this state prior to the adoption of the Uniform Sales Act. Rail v. Little Falls Lbr. Co. 47 Minn. 422 , 50 N. W. 471 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. B. A. Griffin Co. v. Northwestern Fish & Seafood Co.

2. “* * where all the terms of the bargain are agreed upon, the property presumably passes at once, irrespective of delivery or payment; and in such cases and others where, by the proper construction of the bargain, the property passes before delivery the mutual dependency is merely between delivery and payment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. B. A. Griffin Co. v. Northwestern Fish & Seafood Co.