Fischer v. MacHado’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 15 Cal. 4th 951 - Engalla v. Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (1997), 142 Cal. App. 4th 1457 - McKell v. Washington Mut., Inc. (2006)
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
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 499A (Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 499E
Relies on 51 Cal. 3d 120 - Moore v. Regents of University of California · 51 Cal. App. 3d 590 - Weiss v. Marcus · Haigler v. Donnelly · 249 Cal. App. 2d 569 - McCafferty v. Gilbank · Chidsey v. Guerin
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Conversion is any act of dominion wrongfully exerted over another's personal property in denial of or inconsistent with his rights therein.'”
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.