Thomas v. Walmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"If any part of the judgment against the appellant sounds in contract, as against that part appellant might have successfully demanded the exemption of her property from sale, had she first satisfied that part sounding in tort, the amount recovered upon the tort being easily ascertained in this case, and separable from the amount, if any, recovered upon the contract. If the judgment was in such a form as to preclude the possibility of separating one from the other, the rights of the judgment creditor against the judgment debtor would be reduced to the rights he possessed under the contract. Keller v. McMahan, 77 Ind. 62 ; O'Neil v. Beck, 69 Ind. 239 ; Menzie v. Anderson, 65 Ind. 239 ; Ries v. McClatchey, 128 Ind. 125 [ 27 N.E. 349 ]." Thomas v. Walmer et al. (1897), 18 Ind. App. 112, at 118 , 46 N.E. 695, at 697 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schuler v. Langdon