White v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Bernhard v. Rochester German Insurance (1906), Brewster v. Warner (1883)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Spoor v. Holland & Harlow · Brizsee v. Maybee
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In actions of trover and trespass, for property taken and converted by the defendant, where there is no malicious motive on the part of the defendant, but he takes the property under a claim of right, and the real dispute is as to the title, the rule of damages is the value of the property at the time of the conversion or taking, and interest on that sum to the time .of judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crymble v. Mulvaney
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.