37 Md. App. 141 - Staub v. Staub’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
26 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably K & K Management, Inc. v. Chul Woo Lee (1989), 66 Md. App. 46 - Hamilton v. Ford Motor Credit Co. (1986)
26 district · 25 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 H & R BLOCK, INC. v. Testerman · Wedeman v. City Chevrolet Co. · McClung-Logan Equipment Co. v. Thomas · Interstate Insurance Co. v. Logan · Allen v. Core Target City Youth Program
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he gist of a conversion is not the acquisition of the property by the wrongdoer, but the wrongful deprivation of a person of property to the possession of which he is entitled. Accordingly, a conversion occurs at such time as a person is deprived of property which he is entitled to possess.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conversion has been defined as a distinct act of ownership or dominion exerted by a person over the personal property of another which either denies the other’s right or is inconsistent with it. “[T]he gist of a conversion is not the acquisition of the property by the wrongdoer, but the wrongful deprivation of a person of property to the possession of which he is entitled.” Accordingly, a conversion occurs at such time as a person is deprived of property which he is entitled to possess. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s in other tort actions, additional damages adequate to compensate an owner for other injurious consequences which result in a loss greater than the diminished or market value of the chattel at the time of the trespass or conversion may be allowed unless such claimed damages are so speculative as to create a danger of injustice to the opposite party.”
2 later decisions 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.