Alexander v. Mobile Auto Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Ivy v. Hood (1918), Commercial Credit Co. v. Tarwater (1926)
62 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 William W. Bierce, Ltd. v. Hutchins · Van Winkle v. Crowell · Forthman v. Deters · Grant v. United States · Lehman, Durr & Co. v. Van Winkle & 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This common-law right to retain the property until the lien is discharged is waived or lost by a release of the property without enforcement. This rule does not authorize the artisan or machinist to thereafter retake the property and hold it under common-law right. Such a course was not sanctioned by the immemorial custom now relied on by plaintiff, and would easily invite breaches of the peace.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In this state a reservation of title is more than a lien in the holder; it is the title reserved to the seller, and not to vest in the purchasing party to the contract until the purchase price is fully paid.””
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.