Bates v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““It results, from the nature and object of the action of replevin, that the right to damages is incidental to the right to restitution, and must accompany it to the time of adjudging restitution; for not only does the title to restitution carry with it all the incidents, but the admitted right to damages; for detention, if confined to the time of pleading, would be a mockery. Even in detinue, therefore, it is not so limited.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stimson's Ex'x v. Tharp