Rockey v. McCauley’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2018
8 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 General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Mitchell
Most-quoted passages
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““Roekey alleged in his traverse that at the time the garnishee summons was served, McCauley was not the owner and holder of the judgments which he claimed as set-offs. Roekey was entitled to present evidence in support of that alie- gation and it was error to deny him that right. [[Image here]] McCauley correctly points out that in Colorado an assignee for collection may bring suit. He does this, anticipating that upon trial of the issues the evidence presented by Rockey will show that McCauley was an assignee for collection on the date of the service of the garnishee summons. It may be that counsel is correct and that the evidence upon the trial will show exactly what counsel says it will, but we cannot indulge that assumption here. Rockey is entitled to present his evidence, and to have the matter determined upon such evidence, rather than upon speculation as to what it may show." (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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