Ware v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2015
6 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 Murphy v. Carron · Breece v. Jett · Rusk Farms, Inc. v. Ralston Purina Co. · 582 F. Supp. 343 - Nika Corp. v. City of Kansas City, Mo. · Cave v. Cave
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conversion is the unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over the personal property of another to the exclusion of the owner's rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such certainty to cause [plaintiffs conclusion] to be the more reasonable and probable of conclusions to be drawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rise above the stature of guesswork, speculation or surmise.”
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.