Dent v. May Department Stores Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining “false arrest” as “[t]he unlawful detention of a person without a warrant or for any length of time_”
• \The gist of any complaint for false arrest or false imprisonment is an unlawful detention.\
• “The gist of any complaint for false arrest or false imprisonment is an unlawful detention . . . .” (internal quotations omitted)
• “The gist of any complaint for false arrest or false imprisonment is an unlawful detention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).