Southern Express Co. v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Maryland Casualty Insurance v. Welchel (1987), Trust Co. v. Refrigeration Supplies, Inc. (1978)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Davis & Son v. Hurt · Wamsley v. . Atlas Steamship Co. · Rogers v. Huie · Forehand v. Jones · Baker v. Malone & Sons
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`an unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over personal property belonging to another, in hostility to his rights; an act of dominion over the personal property of another inconsistent with his rights; or an unauthorized appropriation.' [Cit.]”
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.