Neverett v. Towne’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably State v. Begins (1986), Fisher v. Poole (1982)
38 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 McLaughlin v. Blake · Bresette v. Knapp · Neverett v. Towne · In Re Estate of Boynton · In Re Hathorn's Transportation Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Imprisonment for debt abolished; exceptions. A person who is a resident of any of the United States shall not be arrested or imprisoned on mesne process issuing on a contract, express or implied, or on an execution issued on a judgment recovered in an action founded ón such' contract] except as hereinafter provided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jobidon v. Lussier““The new practice act does not allow a complaint that is actually in contract to be commenced by a writ issued as a capias with the arrest of the defendant thereon, and a court- would be without jurisdiction of such process.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jobidon v. Lussier
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.