Zerr v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1979
8 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 Nairn v. Bean · Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Buckholts State Bank · Wichita County Water Improvement District No. 1 v. Curlee · Greasy Creek Coal & Land Co. v. Greasy Creek Coal 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is a well-settled rule that one who is rightfully in possession of property, though the legal title thereto may be in another, is not guilty of conversion. Conversion is the unlawful and wrongful exercise of dominion, ownership, or control by one person over the property of another, to the exclusion of the exercise of the same rights by the owner.’ Zerr v. Howell, Tex.Civ.App., 88 S.W.2d 116, 118 . The point is without merit.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fikes v. Bogle · Presley v. Cooper
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.