In re Tansill’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.2d 413
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1968
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Union Nat Bank of Chicago v. Bank of Kansas City · Etheridge v. Sperry · Ludvigh v. American Woolen Co. · Eaton v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · In re Baxter & Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The nature of the transaction, that is to say, whether for instance, it amounts to a sale or bailment or pledge or mortgage or some other transfer of property, or whether sufficient delivery has been made to pass title, or whether recording or filing of an instrument, (sic) be required, and, if so, as to whom it will be void for lack of recording, etc., is to be determined by the state law, and the bankruptcy court will take it as so determined. [In re Tansill, 4 Cir., 17 F.2d 413, 416 (1922)].” 5”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As stated above, it is an essential element of a bailment that the entire title is reserved to the bailor. The fact that title does not accompany possession is an essential characteristic of bailments, distinguishing them from sales. [In re Tansill, 4 Cir., 17 F.2d 413, 416 (1922)].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.