Seay v. Vialpando’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Roussalis v. Wyoming Medical Center, Inc. (2000), 542 F. Supp. 252 - Aitken, Hazen, Hoffman, Miller, P. C. v. Empire Construction Co. (1982)
1 district · 24 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 Abel v. United States · American Tobacco Company v. Emil Werckmeister · National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc. · 35 Cal. 2d 653 - Stanley v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Johnson v. Soulis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`... [We] have exactly the same duty as the trial judge and, assuming the record is complete, we have exactly the same material and information in front of us as he did....' Seay v. Vialpando and Anderson, Wyo., 567 P.2d 285, 287 ; Hunter v. Farmers Insurance Group, Wyo., 554 P.2d 1239, 1244 , and Knudson v. Hilzer, Wyo., 551 P.2d 680, 685 ." Timmons v. Reed, Wyo., 569 P.2d 112, 115 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“good faith on the part of the defendant or ignorance of the owner's rights does not avoid the consequences of (the) unauthorized act constituting conversion.”
1 later decision 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.