McVea v. Verkins’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2014
18 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 In Re King's Estate · Fambrough v. Wagley · Waisath v. Lack's Stores, Inc. · 53 Tex. Civ. App. 561 - Crawford v. Thomason · Ligon v. E. F. Hutton & Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the unauthorized and wrongful assumption and exercise of dominion and control over the personal property of another, to the exclusion of or inconsistent with the owner's rights ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. Ortegon“Conversion may be direct or constructive....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Revie v. Smith
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.