DeWitt v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1943
6 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 Carter, Rice & Co. v. Koshland · Carter, Rice, & Co. v. Koshland
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute does not permit a plaintiff in an attachment suit to take judgment against a garnishee on account of a debt owing by the garnishee to the defendant in the suit, except where the latter refuses to furnish to the sheriff a certificate of the indebtedness, or when the certificate given is unsatisfactory.” DeWitt v. Kelly, 18 Or. 557, 559 ( 23 P. 666 ). Adamson v. Frasier, 40 Or. 273, 277, 278 ( 66 P. 810 , 67 P. 300 ); Murphy v. Bjelik, 87 Or. 329, 350 ( 169 P. 520 , 170 P. 723 ).”
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.