Thackara v. Mintzer’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2003
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is expressly my will that the income which I have heretofore directed to be paid to my children respectively, is to be for their respective, sole, separate and exclusive use and benefit ... so that the same shall not be in any manner pledged, appropriated, disposed of or parted with by anticipation or before the same shall have accrued and become payable; nor be subject to execution, attachment or sequestration, for any debts or liabilities whatever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is now attempted to collect by attachment execution, against the plaintiff in error as garnishee of George, the sum now due to the latter under the will of his father.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether the judgment be for a breach of contract or for a tort, matters not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.