Wirth v. Heavey’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Clark Leasing Corp. v. White Sands Forest Products, Inc. (1975), Gateway Aviation, Inc. v. Cessna Aircraft Co. (1978)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Norton v. Nat. Bank of Commerce of Pine Bluff · Nelson v. Monarch Investment Plan of Henderson, Inc. · Kegan v. Park Bank · Linscomb v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Rodgers v. Crum
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a]bandonment of property requires intent plus an act. A sufficient act is one that manifests a conscious purpose and intention of the owner of personal property neither to use nor to retake the property into his possession.'”
2 later decisions 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.