York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B’s Empirical Analysis
201 U.S. 344 · 1906
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 224 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 665 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2002 · most notably Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co. (1911), Lewis v. Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit (1961)
228 federal appellate · 224 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDolle v. Cassell (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mueller v. Nugent · Fosdick v. Schall · Frank Thompson v. Henry Fairbanks · Hewit v. Berlin Machine Works
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 665 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trustee in bankruptcy is vested with no better right or title to the property than the bankrupt had when the trustee’s title accrued ; and where, as in the state of Ohio, a conditional sale contract is good as between the parties themselves although not filed, the vendor of machinery, sold and delivered under such a contract and payment for which had not been made, may remove the same as against all creditors of the bankrupt who have not fastened upon it by some specific lien.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Blake · In re Fabian““* * * Sueli condition, in regard to the title so remaining until such payment, shall be void as to all subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith, and creditors, unless such conditions shall be evidenced by writing, signed by the purchaser, lessor, renter, hirer or receiver of the same, * * * until the same is deposited with the clerk of the township where the person signing the instrument resides,” etc.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““We have not been referred to any decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio as to the meaning of the statute requiring the filing of contracts of conditional sales, but we concur with the Circuit Court of Appeals in this case, that the statute would render the unfiled contract void as to the same class of creditors mentioned in the chattel mortgage statute. Therefore the contract would be void as to creditors who before its filing had ‘fastened upon the property’ by some specific lien. As to creditors, who had no such lien, being general creditors only, the statute does not avoid the sale, which is good between the parties to the contract.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Crompton · In re Grainger
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.