Peet v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2009
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Van Heusen Charles v. . Radcliff · State ex rel. Phillips v. Rowse · Coover v. Johnson · Heinrichs v. Woods · Sumner v. Cottey
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 2505. * * * No sale of goods and chattels when possession is delivered to the vendee shall be subject to any condition whatever as against creditors of the vendee, or subsequent purchasers from such vendee in good faith, unless such condition shall be evidenced by writing, executed and acknowledged by the vendee and recorded as now provided in cases of mortgages of personal property.” Laws 1877, p. 320, § 1,(f.) “Sec. 2507. Conditional Sales, Void as to Creditors unless Recorded. In all cases where any personal property shall be sold to any person, to be paid for in whole or in part in installments or be leased, rented, hired, or delivered to another on condition that the same shall belong to the person purchasing, leasing, renting, hiring, or receiving the same whenever the amount paid shall be a certain sum, or the value of such property, the title of the same to remain in the vendor, lessor, renter, hirer, or deliverer of the same, until such sum or the value of such property or any part thereof shall have been paid, such condition, in regard to the title so remaining until such payment, shall be void as to all subsequent purchasers in good faith, and creditors, unless such condition shall be evidenced by writing executed, acknowledged and recorded, as provided in cases of mortgages of personal property.” Laws 1877, p. 321, § 1. “Sec. 2508. Duty of Vendor, before Taking Possession of Property. Whenever such property is so sold or leased, rented, hired, or delivered, ”
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.