Gray v. Bracken’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 6 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The contention of the plaintiff is that upon the facts stated the property attached by him in the first action against Quill was not subject to attachment by other creditors of Quill while in the latter’s possession, after the plaintiff had surrendered the possession taken by him by virtue of his writ of attachment, and taken in its place an officer’s receipt. This contention involves a misconception of the essential character of an attachment of personal property. . . . That possession be taken and held by the officer is in all cases, indispensable, and when his possession is relinquished there is a termination of the attachment lien.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. C. E. Blackwell & Co.

2. “it is essential to the validity of an attachment of tangible personal property that the attaching officer take the same into his physical possession, and if he permits it to remain in the possession of the defendant the lien of the attachment is lost and the property is subject to the attachment of other creditors.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 458 F. Supp. 2d 23 - Southern New England Telephone Co. v. Global Naps, Inc.