Daggett v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1987 · most notably Bellows Falls Power Co. v. Commonwealth (1915), 69 Md. App. 476 - Lawson v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance (1987)
26 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Brown v. Brown · McAllister v. Kuhn · Hall v. Corcoran · Sturges v. Keith · Payne v. Elliot
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But conversion does not necessarily imply a complete and absolute deprivation of property; there may be a deprivation which is only partial or temporary, and where the property of the plaintiff remains in or is restored to him. Liptrot v. Holmes, 1 Kelly (Ga.), 381, 391; Fisher v. Kyle, 27 Mich. 454 ; Hall v. Corcoran, 107 Mass. 251 ( 9 Am. Rep. 30 ). An illustration is where one hires a horse for one use and puts it to another, subsequently returning it to the owner. Homer v. Thwing, 3 Pick. (Mass.), 492; Rotch v. Hawes, 12 Pick. (Mass.), 136 ( 22 Am. Dec. 414 ); Crocker v. Gullifer, 44 Me. 491 ; Horsely v. Branch, 1 Humph. (Tenn.), 199. The difference between such a case and one in which the property is wholly made away with, is one affecting the damages only; the damages go to the whole value of the property in the one case, and are commonly less in the other. Wheelock v. Wheelwright, 5 Mass. 104 ; Long v. Lamkin, 9 Cush. (Mass.), 361; Reynolds v. Shuler, 5 Cow. (N. Y.), 323; Cook v. Loomis, 26 Conn. 483 ; Brady v. Whitney, 24 Mich. 154, 156 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Belcher v. Ranney““But the court erred in holding that if a conversion was made out the plaintiff was entitled to recover the market value of the shares. As the plaintiff has all the while remained, and still is, the owner of the shares, and the defendant will not hy the recovery become owner, the error seems very plain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pardee v. Nelson
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.