Rees v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 348 · 1948
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1985
1 district · 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 Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. · Irving Trust Company v. Bowditch · McIntyre v. Kavanaugh · Greenfield v. Tuccillo · Watts v. Ellithorpe
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no doubt that an act of conversion, if wilful and malicious, is an injury to property within the scope of this exception. Such a case was McIntyre v. Kavanaugh, 242 U. S. 138 , 61 L. ed 205, 37 S. Ct. 38 , 38 Am. Bankr. Rep. 165, where the wrong was unexcused and wanton. But a wilful and malicious injury does not follow as. of course from every act of conversion, without reference to the circumstances. There may be a conversion which is innocent or technical, an unauthorized assumption of dominion without wilfulness or malice, [citations] There may be an honest, but mistaken belief, engendered by a course of dealing, that powers have been enlarged or in-capacities removed. In these and like cases, what is done is a tort, but not a wilful and malicious one. . . .” (79 L. Ed 397)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.