Low v. Burrows’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The second objection is equally untenable. We concede that the administrator has power over only those assets within the state where letters are granted; and we might concede that in case of notes, bonds, etc., on debtors who live and have their property beyond the jurisdiction, the administrator has no jurisdiction or dominion. But this is not the case in respect to judgments. There can be no doubt if a debtor against whom the intestate in his lifetime obtained judgment, though at the time of the death of the intestate the debtor was beyond the jurisdiction, afterwards came within the jurisdiction, the administrator might proceed to collect the money from him. The effect of a judgment, as such, unlike a note, is confined to the state where rendered; It is therefore record evidence of a debt. It may be sued on, it is true, out of the state. But it is not easy to see how an administrator of the creditor in California could take to himself as assets a judgment remaining on record in Hew York merely from the fact that the debtor happened for the time being to reside in California. If the debtor went back to Hew York, or had property there, it is clear that the California administrator could not collect the money. If he collected anywhere, it would not be by virtue of the judgment in Hew York vesting in him any title. to it, but merely because the transcript of the judgment gave him evidence upon which he might sue. The judgment is a record, and for any use to be made of it, or ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Lewis v. Adams