O'CONNELL v. Haggerty’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2022
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 Weakley v. Cook · Hennessy Co. v. Wagner · Stauffacher v. Great Falls Public Service Co. · Doney v. Ellison · Hall v. Hilling
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s to items claimed to have been given by her to her sons, the sons have never been named as parties to this action. To state a cause of action for claim and delivery, a plaintiff must establish her immediate right to possession at the time the action is brought and that defendant’s possession is wrongful. The court finds there is no disputed question of fact that [Appellant] has not established her ownership of these items, and therefore she has not stated a claim for relief for return of these items.”
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.