Phillips v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 2004
2 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 21 So. 2d 525 - Cottonport Bank v. Dunn · Newman v. Cannon · Monticello v. Delavisio · Bender v. Davis Cash Store, Inc. · Newman v. Cannon
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a fundamental principal of law that in order to enforce a Vendor’s Lien against movable property the identity of such property must be possible of establishment; and that if such identity be lost by uniting or commingling the effective (sic.) movable with another movable (or in some cases with an immovable), the lien and privilege is automatically destroyed. It no longer exists. For the preservation of the lien and privilege, it must be possible for one, so to speak, to be able to put his hands on the specific object that was sold, and have the ability to separate it unimpaired from other objects or things which it may be associated or to which it may be attached.” Phillips (supra), 652 (emphasis added); 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the things reclaimed consist in merchandise, which is sold in bales, packages, or cases, the claim shall not be admitted if they have been untied, unpacked or taken out of the cases and mixed with other things of the same nature belonging to the purchaser, so that their identity can no longer be established.”
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.