Hopper v. Bills’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2013
20 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 Importsales, Inc. v. Lindeman · City of Miami Beach v. Berns · Brian v. Wilson · Oge v. Resolute Insurance Company · Kaplan v. Associates Discount Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" We find from the record that the defendants acted in good faith; they acted under a valid process. Their refusal to surrender plaintiff's vehicle was qualified; under our findings supra, they were entitled to their charges, and until such were paid, they were entitled to retain possession of plaintiff's truck and trailer. They did not wrongfully deprive plaintiff of his vehicle; defendants committed no illegal conversion or unlawful detention by their actions of refusing plaintiff possession of his vehicle under the conditions of his demand." (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““LSA-R.S. 32:2 empowers the Department of Highways, as an exercise of the police power of the State, to supervise and regulate all traffic on all highways within the State of Louisiana- LSA-R.S. 32:3 recites: ‘The department of public safety shall enforce the provisions of this Chapter and the department’s regulations adopted pursuant thereto on all highways of this state within its jurisdiction and shall exercise such other power and authority as is specifically set forth in this Chapter or other laws of this state.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“" Against the owner of the thing, his right is in the nature of that of pledge, by virtue of which he may retain the thing until the expenses, which he has incurred, are repaid. " He possesses this qualified right of pledge, even against the creditors of the owner, if they seek to have the thing sold. He may refuse to restore it, unless they either refund his advance, or give him security that the thing shall fetch a sufficient price for that purpose."”
1 later decision 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.