Chiappetta v. LeBlond’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 district · 13 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 Packard v. Central Maine Power Co. · General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Anacone · Rubin v. Josephson · Reed v. AC McLoon & Company · Gagne v. Cianbro Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he gist of conversion is an invasion of a party’s possession or right to possession. The Plaintiff must show ‘(1) a property interest in the goods; (2) the right to their possession at the time of the alleged conversion; and (3) when the holder has acquired possession rightfully, a demand by the person entitled to possession and a refusal by the holder to surrender.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradford v. Dumond
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.