Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is not, however, with that part of the contract we have to deal, but with that clause of it which professes to pass title to the property which the vendor might thereafter acquire during her life. Is that clause operative to pass the legal title to such property, so as to enable the plaintiff to maintain trespass or trover for its asportation or conversion? This question has been answered by our predecessors. Upon an able and elaborate review of the authorities, it was decided in Hamilton v. Rogers, that a clause in a mortgage of goods in a store conveying not only those then in the store, but whatever might be therein at any time in the course of the mortgagor’s business, was, as to subsequently acquired goods, inoperative for the purpose of enabling the mortgagee to maintain an action at law against a party seizing them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grimes v. Clark