Foster v. Beall’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1966
17 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 Wiggins v. Bisso · Seeligson v. Lewis & Williams · Goode v. Martinez · Overland Sales Co. v. Pierce
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall he unlawful for any person, whether acting for himself or as an employs or agent to sell, trade or otherwise transfer any second hand motor vehicle without' delivering to the purchaser a bill of sale in duplicate the form of which is prescribed in this act, one copy of which shall be retained by the transferer as evidence of title to ownership, and the other copy of which shall be filed by the transferee with the county tax collector as an application for transfer of license together with the lawful transfer fee of $1.00.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“without transferring by indorsement of the name of the person to whom said license fee receipt was issued by the tax collector and by physical delivery of the tax collector's receipt for license fee for the year that the said sale or trade is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferris v. Langston
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.