State v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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

• lobsterman who found trap adrift with another’s name and number became statutory “owner” when he fished the trap
• “obviously, if ‘owner’ includes only the rightful owner, then the respondent must be found guilty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hope v. Cavallo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1972-09-20· cited 35×
• Alpha Rho Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha, Inc. v. Inhabitants of Waterville
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-05-25· cited 12×
• Howard v. Brown
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1965-02-15· cited 2×
• State v. Pinette
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1992-07-17

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• James v. Wood
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1889-12-11· cited 11×
• Keith v. Maguire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1898-01-08· cited 10×
• Lawrence v. Buck
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1874-07-01· cited 5×