Giannini v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Shedoudy (1941), First National Bank v. Southwest Yacht & Marine Supply Corp. (1984)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Salem Trust Co. v. Manufacturers' Finance Co. · Boone v. Templeman · Louisville & I. R. v. Schuester · 137 Cal. App. 636 - C.I.T. Corporation v. Glennan · 107 Cal. App. 38 - Miller v. Modern Motor 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is thus to be observed that in re-plevin actions a defendant may not only recover the property and damages for the unjust caption or detention thereof, but shall have judgment, if plaintiff fails to prosecute his suit with effect, for the value of the property taken, and double damages for the use of the same from the time of delivery, * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether the replevin was simply a mistake of fact upon the part of the appellant or was in bad faith as found by the lower court is immaterial. The statute settles the matter for us. The measure of damages in this case as fixed by the statute is the amount of injury inflicted upon the appellee by the wrongful replevin * * * * (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the appellant failed in his replevin suit, he was a tortious invader of the property rights of the appellee, with double damages imposed upon him by statute. The measure of damage is the amount which will compensate for all of the detriment proximately caused by the wrongful replevy, and then doubled as provided by statute.”
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.