Fleitas v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
147 U.S. 538 · 1893
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Commissioners of Road Improvement District No. 2 v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. (1922), Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones (1904)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 McGourkey v. Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Co. · Henry Toland v. Horatio Sprague · Luxton v. North River Bridge Co. · Idaho Oregon Land Imp Co v. Bradbury · William Brewster v. William Wakefield
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article 738. — The debtor, against whom this order of seizure shall have been rendered, may obtain an injunction to suspend the sale, if before the time .of sale he files in the court issuing the order his opposition in writing, alleging some of the reasons contained in the following article and 'of which he shall swear to the truth. “Article 739. — The debtor can only arrest the sale of the thing thus seized, by alleging some of the following reasons, to wit: “1. That he has paid the debt for which he is sued; “2. That he has been remitted by the creditor; “3. That it has been extinguished by transaction, novation or some other legal manner; “4. That time has been granted to him for paying the debt, although this circumstance be not mentioned in the contract; “5. That the act containing the privilege or mortgage is forged; “6. That it was obtained by fraud, violence, fear, or some other unlawful means. “7. That he has a liquidated account to plead in compensation to the debt claimed; “8. And finally, that the action’ for the recovery of the debt is barred by prescription. “Article 740. — When the judge grants an injunction, on the allegation under oath of any of the reasons mentioned in the preceding article, he shall require no surety from the defendant, but he shall pronounce summarily on the merits of his opposition if the plaintiff requires it, as is explained below.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Polanco v. Groffinet“will be seized and sold according to law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buckner v. Carmack
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.