Harling v. Creech’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1950 · most notably Brunson v. Dawson State Bank (1915), American Type Founders' Co. v. Nichols (1919)
4 federal appellate · 35 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All (reservations of the title to or property in chattels as security for the purchase money thereof, shall be held- to be chattel mortgages, and shall, when possession is delivered to the vendee, be void as to creditors and bona fide purchasers, unless such reservations be in writing and registered as required of chattel mortgages: provided, that nothing in this law shall be construed to contravene the landlordiand tenant act.” Article 3327, Rev. St. Tex.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The language, ‘all reservations of title to or property in chattels as a security for the purchase money thereof, shall be held to be chattel mortgages,’ is plain, and admits of no other construction. Whenever the transaction assumes that shape, the law gives it the character of a chattel mortgage.””
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.