Forbes v. Plummer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1980
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Marston v. . Swett · Heflin v. Slay · Montgomery Gas-Light Co. v. Montgomery & Eufaula Railway Co. · Hardison v. Plummer · Jonas v. Field
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover, as we have before said, it was ruled on the former appeal (and we see no reason to depart from that holding) that this plaintiff had such possession, title, or right as would support trover, if the defendants really converted the property as alleged and as the proof tended to show. If it could be contended or found that he purchased as an agent or an officer of the lumber company, and not as an individual, still he acquired such rights as would support trover against one who subsequently converted the property. 'Such case is different from one involving the possession or custody of a mere overseer or caretaker, as is spoken of in the case of Heygood v. State, 59 Ala. 49 . The correct rule as to the maintaining of trespass, trover, etc., against wrongdoers, by agents or bailees in their own names, is stated in the opinion in the case of Montgomery G. L. Co. v. Montgomery & E. Ry. Co., 86 Ala. 372 , 5 So. 735 .””
2 later decisions 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.