Howard v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Lewis v. United States · Haynes v. Yale-New Haven Hospital · Mather v. Griffin Hospital · Kilduff v. Adams, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If in order to sustain a claim for statutory theft, when coupled with a claim for conversion arising out of the same facts, a plaintiff must prove 'the additional element of intent over and above what he or she must demonstrate to prove conversion,' it necessarily follows that a plaintiff who cannot prove conversion also cannot prove statutory theft.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The right to a jury trial is fundamental in our judicial system, and ... includes the right to have issues of fact as to which there is room for a reasonable difference of opinion among fair-minded [people] passed upon by the jury and not by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny person who steals any property of another, or knowingly receives and conceals stolen property.”
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.