United States v. Union Livestock Sales Co.’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.2d 755 · 1962
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2004 · most notably United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc (1979), Clovis National Bank v. Thomas (1967)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · United States v. Standard Oil Co. · Swift v. Tyson · Royal Indemnity Co. v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who receives property from his principal and sells it and pays the proceeds of the sale to him is guilty of conversion if the principal has no title to the property, even though the agent acts without knowledge of the defect in the title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.