Hollis v. Chamberlin’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2000
6 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Power to transfer — Good faith purchase of goods — "Entrusting.”—(1) A purchaser of goods acquires all title which his transferor had or had power to transfer except that a purchaser of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest purchased. A person with voidable title has power to transfer a good title to a good faith purchaser for value. When goods have been delivered under a transaction of purchase the purchaser has such power even though (a) the transferor was deceived as to the identity of the purchaser, or (b) the delivery was in exchange for a check which is later dishonored, or (c) it was agreed that the transaction was to be a “cash sale,” or (d) the delivery was procured through fraud punishable as larcenous under the criminal law. (2) Any entrusting of possession of goods to a merchant who deals in goods of that kind gives him power to transfer all rights of the entruster to a buyer in ordinary course of business. [Court’s comment: Neither Park nor Docar was a merchant who dealt in goods of the kind involved, so paragraph (2), supra, is not applicable.] ****** (4) The rights of other purchasers of goods and of lien creditors are governed by the chapters on Secured Transactions (chapter 9 of this title), Bulk Transfers (chapter 6 of this title) and Documents of Title (chapter 7 of this title). [Acts 1963, ch. 81, § 1 (2-403).] § 47-2-402 provides: Rights of seller’s creditors against sold goods. — (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“.... (b) The delivery was in exchange for a check which is later dishonored; or ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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