accession
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 240 U.S. 284 - Union Naval Stores Company v. United States · 1916Most cited · 57 citing opinions
against wrongdoer
One who knowingly takes the property of another cannot, by changing its form or increasing its value, or by commingling it with other property of his own, acquire title by accession.
How often courts cite the case defining “accession”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “accession” — 57 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.