Stack v. Baird’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. ““Unless a different intention appears, the following are rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer: . . . “Rule 2. Where there is a contract to sell specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods for the purpose of putting them in a deliverable state, the property does not pass until such thing is done.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Wash. 2d 738 - Mell v. Winslow

2. ““One hundred and sixteen tons of the steel, for which appellant paid at the rate of $6.25 a ton, were not delivered to him. The consideration for the payment failed, therefore appellant was entitled to recover the money paid by him to the respondents. Rem. Rev. Stat., § 5836-70.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2 Wash. 2d 351 - Smith v. Johnson

3. ““A different intention not appearing, the property in one hundred and sixteen tons of steel which were not put in a deliverable state by the respondents, as required by the contract, did not pass to the appellant [quoting Rem. Rev. Stat, §§ 5836-18, 5836-19].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2 Wash. 2d 351 - Smith v. Johnson