Redmond v. Lilly’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1993
9 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 Wilson v. Commercial Finance Co. · Bruton v. Bland · Irvin v. . Harris · Carrow v. Weston
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [I]f the owner of a chattel contracted to sell it to a buyer for cash and delivered it to him in exchange for a check, believed by the seller to be good at the time it was accepted, the seller could, upon the dishonor of the check, recover the chattel from the buyer on the ground that the legal title had not passed from the seller to the buyer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gross v. Powell
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.