6 Conn. App. 484 - Epstein v. Automatic Enterprises’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2018
4 district · 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 Falker v. Samperi · Coleman v. Francis · Barker v. Lewis Storage & Transfer Co. · Van Steensburg v. Lawrence & Memorial Hospitals · State v. Biller
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he first class pertains to instances of tortious taking in that the possession is originally wrongful. Because proof of the tortious act establishes the conversion, a demand for and refusal to return the property in question are unnecessary. The second class is where the possession, originally rightful, becomes wrongful by reason thereafter of a wrongful detention, or a wrongful use of the property, or the exercise of an unauthorized dominion over the property. In the last two groups of this class, the wrongful use and the unauthorized dominion, constitute the conversion; therefore no demand for the return of the personal property is required. In the first group, since the possession is rightful and there is no act of conversion, there can be no conversion until the possessor refused to deliver up the property upon demand. Unexplained, the refusal is evidence from which a conversion may be found.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Conversion occurs when one, without authorization, assumes and exercises the right of ownership over property belonging to another, to the exclusion of the owner's rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the case of goods having a special and peculiar value to the owner, then full compensation requires that he recover `the value to him based on his actual money loss, all the circumstances and conditions considered, resulting from his being deprived of the property.'”
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.