49 Misc. 2d 300 - Menzel v. List’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably O'KEEFFE v. Snyder (1980), Mucha v. King (1986)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · Republic of Iraq v. First National City Bank · Bernstein v. Van Heyghen Freres Societe Anonyme · Bernstein v. N. V. Nederlandsche-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij · Silsbury & Calkins v. McCoon & Sherman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is of no moment that Peris Galleries may have been a bona fide purchaser of the painting, in good faith and for value and without knowledge of the saga of the Menzels. No less is expected of an art gallery of distinction. Throughout the course of human history, the perpetration of evil has inevitably resulted in the suffering of the innocent, and those who act in good faith. And the principle has been basic in the law that a thief conveys no title as against the true owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bakalar v. Vavra
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.