Weaver v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 22 · 1883
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1937
2 federal appellate ·
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 STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator · United States v. Claflin · Insurance Company v. Brune's Assignee
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.
““In general practice in this state [Louisiana] it is well understood to have so little of ‘the force of the thing adjudged’ that on very slight occasion the whole proceeding is turned into the via ordinaria. Praying for citation, praying for a personal judgment, taking testimony, and praying for a judgment in answer to an injunction, or on a rule to dissolve, have each been held to avoid the fiat, and change the proceeding into an ordinary suit. The order of seizure and sale is rendered upon a title importing a confession of judgment, but it by no means has the force of a judgment by confession. In fact, prior to the constitution of 1868, under statutes of 1861 and 1862, in the major part of the state, this order could be granted by the clerks of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Morey““The decree [executory process] is so far a judgment that an appeal will lie from it; but it is not a judgment in the true and legal sense of the term, and possesses none of its features. It issues without citation, decides no issue, adjudicates to the party obtaining it no right in addition to those secured in his notarial act, and need assign no reasons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. Morey
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.