Pfluger v. Colquitt’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Brumley Estate v. Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (1983), Saturn of Kings Automall, Inc. v. Mike Albert Leasing, Inc. (2001)
6 federal appellate · 18 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 Stowers v. Mahon · Kelley v. Ward · State v. Standard Oil Co. · American Surety Co. of New York v. Axtell Co. · Motor Investment Co. v. City of Knox City
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... conclude[d] that the two statutes here in question may reasonably be construed so as to give effect to both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o motor vehicle may be disposed of at a subsequent sale unless the owner designated in the certificate of title transfers the certificate of title on a form prescribed by the Department before a Notary Public.... No title to any motor vehicle shall pass or vest until the transfer is so executed,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(b) Any entrusting of possession of goods to a merchant who deals in goods of that kind gives him power to transfer all rights of the entruster to a buyer in ordinary course of business.”
2 later decisions 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.