Vissenberg v. Bresnahen’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 the Knapp Stout Co Company v. John McCaffrey · Walters v. City of Ottawa · Scott Et Ux. v. Hewitt · Lee Tung v. Burkhart · Edinburg v. Allen-Squire 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the person in possession has committed no independent act of conversion, a rightful possession in him continues as such until it is transformed into a wrongful detention by a demand for the property and a refusal to deliver it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Some affirmative act on the part of the defendant is usually regarded as necessary to constitute a conversion. A mere intention to do a particular act, or a mere nonfeasance, even though it is a neglect of a legal duty, is ordinarily insufficient to support the maintenance of an action for conversion.” * * * “The mere breach of a contract does not necessarily constitute a conversion. This rule is particularly applicable to a failure to perform an act obligatory by contract, since some affirmative act on the part of the defendant is usually regarded as necessary to constitute a conversion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally speaking, the standard of responsibility of the landlord in that connection is that of reasonableness of conduct under the particular circumstances confronting him and in the light of a like standard of responsibility on the part of the tenant. If a plaintiff in a particular action in that connection has failed to properly meet his own responsibilities and such failure is the proximate cause or one of the proximate causes of his loss, he cannot of course prevail. 202 P.2d, at 668 .”
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.