McCracken v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1953
13 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 Aylesbury Mercantile Co. v. Fitch · Cooper v. Ft. Smith & W. R. Co. · Bilby v. Jones · Dodd-Lear Hardwood Lumber Co. v. Gyr
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conversion is any distinct act of dominion wrongfully exerted over another’s personal property in denial of or inconsistent with his rights therein.””
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.