Bern v. Rosen’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Voges Motor Co. v. Ward · Alexander v. Mobile Auto Co. · Fidelity Phenix Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Raper · Emerson-Brantingham Implement Co. v. Arrington · Kent v. Dean
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ * * * if a vendor in a conditional sale exercise his option to take back the property sold, he can not thereafter enforce the payment of the purchase price, as the assertion of either right is an abandonment of the other. * * * ’ ” citing cases.”
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.