Goodwin v. . Wertheimer’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably DeWeerth v. Baldinger (1994), MacDonnell v. Buffalo Loan, Trust & Safe Deposit Co. (1908)
3 federal appellate · 55 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 Holbrook v. Wright · Scofield v. . Whitelegge · Barnard v. . Campbell
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The refusal of a servant to deliver goods intrusted to him by his master, on a demand by a stranger, is not sufficient evidence to maintain replevin against the servant, nor against the master, when a demand and refusal is necessary to make the possession of the defendant tortious.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tasker v. Ryan
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.