Walling v. . Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 1962 · most notably Lafayette Trust Co. v. . Beggs (1915), Bettman v. Harness (1896)
53 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Relationships
Relies on Day v. . Bach
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•The lien of the execution was not destroyed by the appointment of the receiver, but the right and' interest of all parties to the property were thereafter to be adjusted by the court which appointed the receiver, and the property could not be taken, out of the possession of the receiver, and sold upon the execution, without leave of the court The execution creditor could bring his lien to the attention of the court in the action in which the receiver was appointed, and ask to have the execution satisfied out of the proceeds of the property.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.