Ralph v. Pipkin’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co. · Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. · Byrd v. Hall · Moseley v. v. Secret Catalogue, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n Tennessee, a civil action for conversion, the wrongful appropriation of tangible property, is not recognized for the appropriation of intangible personal property.”
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.