Melnick v. Sable’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
November 2013
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. New York National Exchange Bank · Wood v. . Fisk · Britton v. . Ferrin · Meyer v. Price · Moffatt v. . Fulton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such liability [for conversion] accrues only against the individual officer who consummated the conversion through his personal action.”
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.