Haigler v. Donnelly

How courts have described this case

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

• “defendant, acting as agent for plaintiffs, received stipulated sum of money belonging to plaintiffs and refused to account for it after a proper demand.”
• “money cannot be the subject of an action for conversion unless a specific sum capable of identification is involved (Baxter v. King, 81 Cal.App. 192 [253 P. 172])”
• A broker under a net sales contract is not entitled to compensation unless he successfully negotiates a sale for more than the net amount
• “[E]xemplary damages may not be recovered in an 2 || action based upon a contractual obligation even though the breach of contract is willful or 3 malicious.”
• punitive damages are 5 recoverable for conversion
• punitive damages are 5 recoverable for conversion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

56 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-08-07· cited 412×
• Ward v. Taggart
  California Supreme Court· 1959-03-12· cited 340×
• Gagne v. Bertran
  California Supreme Court· 1954-10-19· cited 253×
• Kim v. Westmoore Partners, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-11-29· cited 126×
• Ledingham v. Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care of Hospital Service Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-06-12· cited 113×
• Voris v. Lampert
  California Supreme Court· 2019-08-15· cited 102×
• Weiss v. Marcus
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-09-23· cited 90×
• Chelini v. Nieri
  California Supreme Court· 1948-08-30· cited 89×
• Wills v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
  S.D. California· 1961-12-29· cited 85×
• Michelson v. Hamada
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-10-27· cited 84×
• Software Design & Application, Ltd. v. Hoefer & Arnett, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1996-08-29· cited 83×
• Welco Electronics, Inc. v. Mora
  California Court of Appeal· 2014-01-23· cited 81×
• Steiner v. Rowley
  California Supreme Court· 1950-08-11· cited 79×
• PCO, Inc. v. Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-04-30· cited 79×
• People v. Brian S.
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-04-09· cited 63×
• Ferraro v. Pacific Finance Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-05-29· cited 55×
• All-West Design, Inc. v. Boozer
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-06-30· cited 44×
• Foster v. Keating
  California Court of Appeal· 1953-09-29· cited 38×
• Sanowicz v. Bacal
  California Court of Appeal· 2015-02-26· cited 38×
• Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Blade
  California Court of Appeal· 1956-02-29· cited 36×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Philpott v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1934-10-01· cited 137×
• McCall v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1934-10-01· cited 76×
• Los Angeles Drug Co. v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1936-12-29· cited 26×
• Wetzell & Griffith v. Wagoner
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1890-05-19· cited 19×
• Wood v. Blaney
  California Supreme Court· 1895-05-24· cited 17×
• Burnett v. Potts
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1908-10-26· cited 16×
• Arzaga v. Villalba
  California Supreme Court· 1890-08-01· cited 14×
• Wolverton v. Tuttle
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1908-04-14· cited 13×
• Culbertson v. Sheridan
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1914-11-14· cited 13×
• Baumgarten v. Alliance Assur. Co.
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California· 1908-01-27· cited 12×
• Lyles v. Perrin
  California Supreme Court· 1897-12-14· cited 11×
• Futrell v. Reeves
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1915-06-08· cited 10×
• Gilmore v. Bolio
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1911-05-08· cited 10×
• Fitzpatrick v. Clark
  California Court of Appeal· 1938-06-03· cited 4×
• Jones v. Smith
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 1910-01-15· cited 1×