Hale v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2014
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Elmendorf v. Taylor · Stone v. Mayor of New-York · Clementson v. Williams · Mayor of New York v. Lord · Clark v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In not one of our statutes of limitation, is their [sic] a saving clause in favor of absent, non-resident or foreign creditors; yet the doctrine contended for by the plaintiff’s counsel, would place such creditor on a better footing in our courts, than our own citizens. It was, I apprehend exclusively in reference to causes of action accruing here, that the saving clauses were introduced. The language of the act of 1820, Rev. Laws, 670, clearly implies this. It enacts, that if any person against whom there is, or shall be, any such cause of action, shall not be resident in this State, when such cause of action accrues; or shall remove from this State, after the same shall accrue, then, &c. Now, why I would ask, make the resident out of, or the removing from this State, the contingency upon which the action shall be saved, unless upon the supposition that the cause of action accrued here, and the right of action existed here ? In respect to such cases, there is a reason why the action should be saved, upon those contingencies. In the first place, if the creditor resides here, or the contract was to be performed in this State, and the debtor resides out of this State, when the right of action accrues, the plaintiff ought not to be compelled to go abroad in search of his debtor; but should be permitted to sue him at any time within six years after he comes into the State; and in the second place, if the debtor or person liable to be sued, absconds or removes out of the State, h”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zwillenberg v. Post“[In a densely populated town, all may unite in destroying a building to stop a conflagration which threatens destruction to the rest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. State
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.