Holman v. Gillette’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Now we think it quite evident that this provision refers only to such conveyances, pledges or conditional sales, as are intended as security, or which give a lien for that purpose, and not to absolute sales which are by-no statute required to be in writing; and that so far as this provision is concerned, it does not interfere with the right of the husband to make an absolute sale of such property, as he may of personal property not thus exempt, there being no statute requiring such sale to be in writing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Parsons v. Kimmel