Thomas v. Westbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Herring (1979), City Nat. Bank of Fort Smith v. Goodwin (1990)
4 district · 16 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 Fort Smith & Van Buren Bridge District v. Scott · Greenspan v. Miller · Jones v. Stone · Arnold v. Chas. T. Abeles & Co. · Ozark Land Co. v. Lane-Bodley Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Conversion is ordinarily said to consist of the exercise of dominion over the property in violation of the rights of the owner or person entitled to possession. The evidence as to appellee's conversion of the market equipment is rather meager, but it seems to be undisputed that he did change the lock on the door of the building in which the property was situated. By so doing he brought about a situation under which appellant, Willard, was denied access to the property and he (Westbrook) alone could enter the building. Such an act was held by the supreme court of New Hampshire in the case of Jones v. Stone, 78 N.H. 504 , 102 A. 377 , to amount to conversion of chattels within the building."”
3 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.