May v. Donalson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1998
16 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 National Compress Co. v. Hamlin · American Surety Co. v. Hill County · Ashe v. Young · Smith v. Texas Co. · Equitable Trust Co. v. Jackson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the garnishee is discharged upon his answer, the costs of the proceeding, including a reasonable compensation to the garnishee, shall be taxed against the plaintiff; where the answer of the garnishee has not been controverted and the garnishee is held thereon, such costs shall be taxed against the defendant and included in the execution provided for in this section; where the answer is contested, the costs shall abide the issue of such contest.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Article 4100, R.S.1925, provides for the taxing of costs in a garnishment proceeding and it must be followed. Where the garnishee is discharged upon his answer, the statute provides that the costs of the proceeding, including a reasonable compensation for the garnishee, shall be taxed against the plaintiff. This reasonable compensation to the garnishee includes a reasonable attorneys’ fee incurred by it in the case. In order to determine what is meant by the ‘garnishee is discharged upon his answer,’ we must look to Article 4086, R.S. 1925.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.