Hanson v. National Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2016
6 federal appellate · 7 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 Underwood v. Globe Indemnity Co. · People v. Noblett · Commonwealth v. Lannan · Commonwealth v. Rubin · Brooklyn United Theatre, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving Picture Machine Operators' Union
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession was obtained from the plaintiffs by larceny. It is immaterial whether the fraud was exercised upon the mind of the messenger, or upon the minds of those directing his actions. In either event the plaintiffs have been deprived of their property by larceny, and that larceny was consummated while the property was in the custody of their messenger, through a. delivery obtained fraudulently and with intent to convert the property. It cannot be said that the larceny occurred after the messenger had ended the transit risk by delivery at destination, when that delivery was itself the consummation of a scheme to obtain possession with larcenous intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“both before and at the time when the pretended purchaser obtained possession of the securities he had the fraudulent intent to convert them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the plain intent of the bond was to furnish protection against loss by larceny through a felonious taking of possession from the messenger”
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.