Finn v. Witherbee’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2012
10 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 Vesper v. Crane Co. · Atlas Development Co. v. National Surety Co. · 37 Cal. App. 285 - Morneault v. National Surety Co. · 74 Cal. App. 2d 344 - Sandvold v. Perrot · 24 Cal. App. 734 - Ross v. Thomas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Whoever takes and holds the property of another without right, is liable to the owner for the reasonable value of its use during such detention. (Atlas Development Co. v. National Surety Co., 190 Cal. 329, 332 [ 212 P. 196 ].) . . . Whether personal property, unjustly taken, is put to use or placed in storage, its reasonable rental value is just the same. It belongs to its owner and he is entitled to the value of its use. . . . Neither the fact that an owner had other plans for disposing of his chattel by a speculative sale or for lending it gratis to a friend is ground for denial of his recovering its reasonable market value for the period of its detention. (Atlas Development Co. v. National Surety Co., 190 Cal. 329, 333 [ 212 P. 196 ].)””
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.