Ames v. Hoy’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1939
18 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 Howard v. Howard
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The chief argument is that there is no necessity for a right of action on a judgment, inasmuch as execution can be issued to enforce the judgment already obtained, and no better or higher right or ádvantage is given to the subsequent judgment. But this is not true; in fact, as in many cases it may be of advantage to obtain another judgment in order to save or prolong the lien, and in this case the advantage of having record evidence of the judgment is sufficiently perceptible, the argument that the defendant may be vexed by repeated judgments on the same cause or action, is answered by the suggestion that an effectual remedy to the party against this annoyance is the payment of the debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hummer v. Lamphear
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.