Van Steenbergh v. Kortz’s Empirical Analysis
1813
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1908
1 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think, therefore, that the oath of the creditor applying, ” [that is applying for the attachment,] “was not the satisfactory proof intended by the act, and'that the attachment issued without the requisite proof. It was, however, a question within the jurisdiction of the justice what was satisfactory proof, for the statute had not defined it. He was ex necessitate and de jure to judge and determine what was to him satisfactory proof; and if he made a mistake in judging of the proof, as he would have done in admitting a paper purporting to be a letter of the debtor, without evidence of the handwriting, it -was a case of error of judgment, and not of excess of jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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