Geilfuss v. Corrigan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The so-called storage warrants were not warehouse receipts. * * * In order to be such they must be issued by a warehouseman or one openly engaged in the business of storing property for others for a compensation. * * * Not only was there no proof in this case that the furnace company was in the warehousing or storage business, but, on the contrary, the proof was conclusive that it was not in such business, and never had been. The fact that it surreptitiously issued the false receipts in question did not con stitute it a warehousing corporation. As well might it be argued that the issuance of counterfeit bills constitutes the counterfeiter a bank.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Security Warehousing Co. v. Hand

2. ““To uphold the receipt as a proper warehouse document, transferring the title to the property and operating as a good constructive delivery of it to the vendee, it must in all cases distinctly appear, that it was executed by a warehouseman, one openly engaged in that business, and in the usual course of trade.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Security Warehousing Co. v. Hand