Laverty v. . Snethen’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2006 · most notably Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. (1934), Falker v. Samperi (1983)
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of good faith is not involved. A wrongful intent is not an essential element of the conversion. It is sufficient if the owner has been deprived of his property by the act of another as- ■ suming an unauthorized dominion and control over it.””
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.