Rhea v. Riner’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1934
1 federal appellate · 3 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.
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.
““At the common law a delivery of possession was not necessary to pass the title to chattels from the vendor to the purchaser. To complete the purchase, and vest the title in The buyer, it was only necessary that the terms of the sale should be complete, and the property sold specified, and separated from other property of the same kind, where it was incapable of identification. When this was done by the parties the sale was complete, and The title to the property became vested in the purchaser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sutherland v. Brace
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.