Crossett v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2017
8 federal appellate · 7 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 26 Tex. Ct. App. 102 - McClure v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If plaintiff is free to go where he wants, he cannot sustain an action of false imprisonment; if he is prevented from going where he may have a right to go, a mere partial obstruction to his will may be the basis of some other form of action, but not of the one here under consideration. Bird v. Jones, 7 Q.B. 742; * * * Stevens v. O'Neill, 51 App.Div. 364 , 64 N.Y.Supp. 663. * * * * * * "There is no legal wrong unless the detention was involuntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who submits to arrest and imprisonment rather than pay a small license fee, illegally exacted, but which he might have recovered back, without serious injury or damage, has no cause of action. Cottam v. Oregon City (C.C.) 98 Fed. 570 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"When the contest is for possession of personal property, and there is no intent to detain the person, false imprisonment is not made out. McClure v. State, 26 Tex.App. 102 , 9 S.W. 353 ." [Emphasis added.]”
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.