Scheuer v. Salmon Weed & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.2d 335 · 1931
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Myzel v. Fields (1967), Schultz v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1983)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 McNeil v. . the Tenth National Bank · National Safe Deposit, Savings & Trust Co. v. Hibbs · Galigher v. Jones · Markham v. . Jaudon · Wright v. . Bank of the Metropolis
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) its value at the time of conversion or (2) its highest intermediate value between notice of the conversion and a reasonable time thereafter during which the stock could have been replaced had that been desired, whichever of (1) or (2) is higher.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The federal courts have historically approved a rule of damages for conversion of stock measured by the price at the time of conversion or the highest intermediate value reached within a reasonable time after notice of the conversion by the plaintiff, whichever is greater.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fawcett v. Heimbach“if he had desired to dispose of [his property] in that interval, he would have learned of the conversion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.