Fleet v. Hooker’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1985
10 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 Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. · Pusey & Jones Co. v. Hanssen · Pierce v. United States · Swan Land & Cattle Co. v. Frank · National Tube Works Co. v. Ballou
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “A receiver may be appointed by the Supreme Court, the district or superior court, or any judge of either, or in the absence of said judges from the county, by the County judge: “First. In an action by a vendor to vacate a fraudulent purchase of property, or by a creditor to subject any property or fund to his claim, or between partners or others jointly owning or interested in any property or fund, on the application of the plaintiff, or of any party whose right to or interest in the property or fund, or the proceeds thereof, is probable, and where it is shown that the- property or fund is in danger of being lost, removed or materially injured. ‘‘Second. In an action by a mortgagee for the foreclosure of his mortgage and sale of the mortgaged property, where it appears that the mortgaged property is in danger of being lost, removed or materially injured, or that the condition of the mortgage has not been performed, and that the property is probably insufficient to discharge the mortgage debt. “Third. After judgment, to carry the judgment into effect. “Fourth. After judgment, to dispose of the property according to the judgment or to preserve it during the pendency of an appeal, or in proceeding i'n aid of execution, when an execution has been returned unsatisfied, or when the judgment debtor refuses to apply his property in satisfaction of the judgment. “Fifth. In the cases provided in this code, and by special statutes, when a corporation has been dissolved, or is insolve”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘One of the essentials for the appointment of a chancery receiver is that the action itself be one of an equitable character. Consequently it is the general rule that in the absence of statutory authorization, a receiver will not be appointed in an action at law, and an action which is oné at law cannot be made of an equitable character by allegations to the effect that the defendant is insolvent and other creditors are threatening to sue.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.