132 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 898 - Law v. Heiniger’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2018
4 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 37 Cal. 2d 16 - Freedman v. Rector, Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Matthias Parish · Fredericks v. Tracy · Faulkner v. First National Bank · 84 Cal. App. 567 - Wilson v. Mattei · Harper v. Futrell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action to recover possession of personal property will not lie unless at the time the action is commenced defendant has the possession of the property or the power to deliver it in satisfaction of a judgment for its possession,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in those cases (detinue) where possession had been in the defendant but was wrongfully given to another”
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.