State v. Galbreath’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2019
9 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 121 Wash. 2d 333 - State v. Joy · State v. Schoelerman · 258 Pa. Super. 461 - Commonwealth v. Austin · State v. Worley · Johnson v. Troiano
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits theft when the person does any of the following: [[Image here]] 2. Misappropriates property which the person has in trust, or property of another which the person has in the person’s possession or control, whether such possession or control is lawful or unlawful, by using or disposing of it in a manner which is inconsistent with or a denial of the trust or the owner’s rights in such property, or conceals found property, or appropriates such property to the person’s own use, when the owner of such property is known to the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Caslavka“that in the context of an ordinary construction contract, cash advanced as a down payment will not qualify as `property of another' because title and possession are transferred from the owner to the contractor not in trust but outright.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Ziadeh“while perhaps satisfying, [the outcome in Joy ] can only be reached through a legal fiction of converting an unconditional transfer to a transfer in trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Ziadeh
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.