87 Cal. App. 282 - Olschewski v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Roth Drug, Inc. v. Johnson (1936), 148 Cal. App. 4th 97 - Fremont Indemnity Co. v. Fremont General Corp. (2007)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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 Empire Steam Laundry v. Lozier · Ralston v. Bank of California · New Method Laundry Co. v. MacCann · Boehm v. Spreckels · Payne v. Elliot
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of a conversion cause of action [in California] are (1) plaintiffs' ownership or right to possession of the property at the time of the conversion; (2) defendants' conversion by a wrongful act or disposition of plaintiffs' property rights; and (3) damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“property which is specific enough to be identified, and not to such indefinite, intangible and uncertain property rights as the mere goodwill of a business, or trade secrets”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kremen v. Cohen““It is not affirmatively alleged that he had a list or memorandum of the names of customers, either written or otherwise, or that he had access to any such list.””
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.