Freeman v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 264 · 1884
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably United States v. Stowell (1890), Gibson v. Shufeldt (1887)
19 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 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 John Van Ness v. Perez Pacard · Boyle v. Zacharie · Kutter v. Smith · United States v. Dashiel
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The' action of the circuit judge in directing the recall of the executions in vacation, out of court, without ■notice to the. judgment creditor,-was irregular and unauthorized, and of no legal validity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stockmeyer v. Tobin“The levy of an execution takes effect from the time when it is made by seizing the property, and is not defeated by a subsequent writ of supersedeas____”
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.