White v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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. ““On the grounds of public policy, the government of the United States and officers and agents thereof, and the governments of the several states and their officers and agents, are exempt from the process of garnishment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Landman v. Du Bois

2. ““No judgment shall be rendered upon a liability of the garnishee arising: . . . “Third. By reason of any money in his hands as a public officer, and for which he is accountable to the defendant merely as such officer.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Landman v. Du Bois

3. ““. . . the statute literally presupposes an existing liability, but still denies the right to subject it to garnishment . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Landman v. Du Bois