Turner v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1992
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, on the sale of property, more money is received than is sufficient to pay the amount of the execution or executions in the hands of the officer, the surplus shall be immediately paid over to the defendant, his agent or attorney.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Such surplus is the property of the execution defendant, and, being held by the sheriff in a private, and not in his official, capacity, it may be attached in his hands.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is apparent conflict in cases decided by this court; but we believe that they have distinguishing features, although they may not be reconcilable on principle.””
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.