Sperry v. Renner’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1960
6 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 Market Nat. Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio v. Raspberry · Babbitt Bros. Trading Co. v. Marley · Carr v. Brawley · Farmers' State Bank of Alva v. Kavanaugh · Abbott v. Goodwin
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.
““Every mortgagor of personal property in this state, who with the consent of the mortgagee, or his assignee, shall sell such mortgaged property, or any part thereof, while the mortgage remains in force and unsatisfied, shall be deemed and conclusively held to be the trustee of the funds received upon the sale thereof, for the benefit of such mortgagee, or assignee, to the extent of the indebtedness secured thereby, or any balance due thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A ■ garnisher is not a purchaser in good faith and acquires no greater right against the garnishee than the principal debtor had at the time of the service of process on the garnishee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.