Tennent v. Battey’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1947
1 district · 17 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Is not the language above quoted from Chancellor Kent, most apt? Ought not a party to have a certain claim upon the property of the defendant before he attempts to inquire into the bona fides of the defendant’s transactions, and invokes the processes of the law, and appropriates the time and labor of courts in the prosecution of such inquiry? and can a party who has simply asserted a claim (and that is all an attachment amounts to, the mere assertion by the plaintiff of a claim), be said in any just sense to have a certain claim upon the defendant’s property?” (p. 329.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A question, upon which courts have ruled so differently, cannot be perfectly plain and easy of settlement. Many considerations of weight can be urged on either side, and it is not easy for either to answer fully the arguments of the other. . . . While an attachment is doubtless a specific lien, it is a lien of very uncertain tenure.” (p. 328.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Until the creditor has established his title he has no right to interfere, and it would lead to an unnecessary and perhaps fruitless and oppressive interruption to the exercise of the debtor’s rights. Unless he has a certain claim upon the property of the debtor, he has no concern with his frauds.’ ” (p. 327.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.