Dargan v. Waring’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 1941 · most notably Central Railroad Banking Co of Georgia v. Pettus (1885), Crawford v. Kirksey (1876)
24 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.
Relationships
Relies on Campbell v. Spence · Pope v. Brandon · M'Broom v. Rives
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment creditor may resort to a court of equity not only to subject the equitable interests of his debtor, But for the purpose of removing impediments to the sale at its value of an estate which may be reached by a fieri facias. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.