Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Prom and after the passage of this act, execution may issue upon ad-judgment of record in any of the courts of this commonwealth, notwithstanding such judgment may have lost its lien upon real estate without a previous writ of scire facias to revive the same: Provided, however, that such execution shall not issue after the lapse of twenty years from the maturity of the judgment. And provided, further, that at' the same time execution is issued a- scire facias shall be issued to revive the judgment upon which said execution is issued, and in case the defendant or defendants in said writs file an affidavit alleging a just and legal defense against the revival of said judgment, it shall be lawful for the court, or a judge thereof in vacation, to stay the writ of fieri facias by an order presenring a lien thereof, and to order the scire facias on the head of the list for trial at the next term for the trial of civil cases.””

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