Smith v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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

1. ““This proposition confuses the right to recover the possession of the land established in the plaintiff by the judgment in ejectment, with the mere lien upon the lands of the judgment debtor, whicb the statute gives as a collateral right, to the plaintiff in a money-judgment. Such lien is the mere right to have the lands upon which it rests sold for the purpose of making the money recovered by the judgment. That right undoubtedly expires unless enforced within the statutory period, and having once expired, is incapable of revival, although upon revival of the judgment a new lien may be acquired.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rubin v. Midlinsky

2. ““The proceeding by scire facias to revive a judgment is not an original suit, but is merely a continuation of the suit in which the judgment was rendered. State v. Foster, 7 Vt. 52 ; Eldred v. Hazlett’s Administrator, 38 Pa. St. 16; Hatch v. Eustis, 1 Gall. 160 ; Brown v. Harly, 2 Fla. 159; Pickett v. Pickett, 1 How. (Miss.) 267; Ingram v. Belk, 2 Strobh. 207; Fitzhugh v. Blake, 2 Cranch, C. C. 37.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Allen v. Patterson