Walker v. Hanke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) by tortious taking; (2) by any use or appropriation to the use of the person in possession, indicating a claim of right in opposition to the owner's rights; or (3) by refusal to give up possession to the owner on demand, even though the defendant's original possession of the property was proper.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Litzinger v. Estate of Litzinger (In Re Litzinger) · Loutzenhiser v. Best

2. “Conversion is the ‘unauthorized assumption of the rights of ownership over the personal property of another to the exclusion of the owner’s rights.’ A general debt will not give rise to a cause of action in conversion. Generally, an action for conversion lies only for a specific chattel which has been wrongfully converted, thus a claim for money may not be asserted in conversion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Koger v. Hartford Life Insurance Co.