Herbert v. Harl’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably In Re Marriage of Crow and Gilmore (2003), Jones v. Director of Revenue (1992)
120 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 Murphy v. Carron · Trenton Trust Co. v. Western Surety Co. · Kelso v. Kelso · Park County Implement Co. v. Craig · Case v. Universal Underwriters Insurance Co.
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the event of a sale or transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle or trailer for which a certificate of ownership has been issued, the holder of such certificate shall endorse on the same an assignment thereof, with warranty of title in form printed thereon ... with a statement of all liens or encumbrances on such motor vehicle or trailer[.] Section 301.210.4 further provides that: [i]t shall be unlawful for any person to buy or sell in this state any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of this state, unless, at the time of the delivery thereof, there shall pass between the parties such certificates of ownership with an assignment thereof, as provided in this section, and the sale of any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of this state, without the assignment of such certificate of ownership, shall be fraudulent and void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shivers v. Carr · Fluker v. Lynch“The credibility of witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony is a matter for the trial court, which is free to believe none, part, or all of their testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nmo v. Dpo · In Re Baby Girl P.
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.