King v. Ramsay’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1950
12 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 Wallace v. Clark
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“u To avoid circuity of action, the obligee should only be allowed to recover against the general owner the value of his special interest in the property. This view is fully sustained by the cases of Belt v. Worthington, 3 Gill & Johns. 247, and Wallace v. Clark, 7 Blackf. 298 . In those cases the actions of replevin had been dismissed and judgments entered for a return of the goods replevied. In actions afterward brought on the replevin bonds, the obligees (obligors) were permitted to prove in mitigation of the damages, that the plaintiffs in replevin had title to the property.” See also Warner v. Matthews, 18 Ill. 83 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magerstadt v. Harder
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.