Pollard v. Reardon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the developments of commerce and commercial credits the bill of lading has come to represent the property, but with greater facility of negotiation, transfer, and delivery than the property itself. It is a negotiable instrument, even though not in the same sense as promissory notes or bills of exchange. It carries on its face in the words ‘and assigns’ an authority to dispose of it, and, as we have seen, a like authority, when indorsed in blank, by which the person who voluntarily puts it out, or permits it to be put out, ought to be estopped. And it has become so universal and necessary a factor in mercantile credits that the law should malte good what the hill of lading thus holds out. There is every reason found in the law of equitable estoppel and in sound, public policy for holding, and no injustice is involved in holding, that, if one of two must suffer, it should be he who vol-' untarily puts out of his hands an assignable bill of lading, rather than he who innocently advances value thereon.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Munroe v. Philadelphia Warehouse Co. · National Bank of Savannah v. Kershaw Oil Mill