Jordan v. Ebert’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1987
4 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 Brede Decorating, Inc. v. Jefferson Bank & Trust Co. · Davis v. Nash Central Motors · Schulte v. Florian · 221 Mo. App. 577 - Proctor v. Home Trust Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiff, to make a submissible case for conversion, was required to present evidence (1) of his possession or right to possession at the time of the alleged conversion or an ownership which carries with it the right to immediate possession. Brede Decorating, Inc. v. Jefferson Bank and Trust Co., Mo., 345 S.W.2d 156, 164 ; (2) of the taking of the property of plaintiff against his will and in open defiance of plaintiff’s ownership and right of possession. Detmer v. Miller, Mo.App., 220 S.W.2d 739 , 745; Davis v. Nash Central Motors, Mo.App., 332 S.W.2d 475, 480 , and (3) damages resulting from the act or acts of conversion”.”
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.