United States v. Tugwell’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 5 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004
12 federal appellate · 2 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 United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc · Peed v. Burleson's, Inc. · United States v. Friend's Stockyard, Inc. · United States v. Pete Brown Enterprises, Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“act of taking possession of the [property] with intent to acquire in it a proprietary interest that [the seller] was not empowered to give represents sufficiently serious unauthorized dominion over the [property] to fulfill the second element of the tort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a debtor makes an unauthorized disposition of collateral, ... the secured party may repossess the collateral from [the transferee] or in an appropriate case maintain an action for conversion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“apparently was unaware of FmHA's security interest,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.