8 Utah 2d 73 - Allred v. Hinkley’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably In Re Wayne R. Ogden, Alta Industries, Ltd. v. Hurst (1993)
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 40 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 Harrison v. Auto Securities 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A conversion is an act of wilful interference with a chattel, done without lawful justification by which the person entitled thereto is deprived of its use and possession”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] conversion is an act of wilful interference with a chattel, done without lawful justification by which the person entitled thereto is deprived of its use and possession.... Although conversion results only from intentional conduct it does not however require a conscious wrongdoing, but only an intent to exercise dominion or control over the goods inconsistent with the owner’s right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“only an intentional interference with the true owner's rights.”
2 later decisions 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.