Hildegarde, Inc. v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
12 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill Noyes v. Lazere (1974), Shea v. Fridley (1956)
12 district · 29 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 Bradley v. Roe · Baer v. Slater · Obodov v. Foster · 107 Ind. App. 457 - Sullivan & O'Brien, Inc. v. Kennedy · Brandenburg v. Northwestern Jobbers Credit Bureau
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To constitute conversion, there must be an execution of dominion over the goods which is inconsistent with and in repudiation of the owner’s right to the goods or some act done which destroys or changes their character or deprives the owner of possession permanently or for an indefinite length of time.”
4 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.