Ruffier v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Vangilder v. Hoffman (1883), Gassert v. Bogk (1888)
28 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But if the contract with Slater was a mortgage, the subsequent extension of time for its payment will not change its character; for if ever a mortgage, it must continue so (Clark v. Henry 2 Cow. [N. Y.] 324), unless the contract is abrogated and extinguished by a new contract, supported by an adequate consideration. Nor would the' acceptance of a lease of the premises by appellants, it is held by high authority, have conclusively shown the transaction to be a conditional sale. Kunkle v. Wolfersberger, 6 Watt [Pa.] 126.” Loving v. Milliken, 59 Tex. 425 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““For whether it is the one or the other depends upon the construction, placed by the law upon the real agreement between the parties, and not on what they have said about it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.