Ehlers v. Vinal’s Empirical Analysis
382 F.2d 58 · 1967
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably United States v. Janis (1976), Psaty v. United States (1971)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Holland v. United States · Helvering v. Taylor · Burnet v. Logan · United States v. Massei · Friedberg v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been frequently and consistently decided by this court, as it is quite unanimously agreed by courts generally, that if the owner of real estate enters into a contract of sale whereby the purchaser agrees to buy and the owner agrees to sell it and the vendor retains the legal title until the purchase money or some part of it is paid, the ownership of the real estate as such passes to and vests in the purchaser, and that from the date of the contract the vendor holds the legal title as security for a debt as trustee for the purchaser. The interest or estate acquired by the vendee is land and the rights conferred by the contract upon and vested in the vendor are personal property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were realized simply by holding the contracts until maturity, meanwhile collecting the periodic payments from the purchaser of the property,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely collected the proceeds of assigned claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.