Findlay v. McAllister’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 104 · 1885
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Raymond v. Blancgrass (1908), McElhanon v. Hing (1985)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Meriwether v. Garrett · Rees v. City of Watertown · Adler v. Fenton · Davies v. Corbin
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 right of a judgment creditor to proceed by action against those who rescue the person of his debtor arrested on mesne or final process, or interfere with the goods of his debtor so as to prevent a "levy or sale by the sheriff to satisfy his judgment, is well recognized at common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The three cases last cited extend the rule further than the exigency of the present case requires, and further than this court has been disposed to go.””
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.