Bender v. Rinker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The remedy of attachment is, in its nature, harsh. The right to employ it as a means for the enforcement of a liability exists only when the defendant in the action has been guilty of some of the acts enumerated in the státute. . . It is true that, by express direction of the statute. . . the chapter upon attachments is to receive a liberal construction; and we think a fair construction of the chapter requires us to hold that where a motion to discharge is presented, supported by affidavits challenging the existence of the grounds upon which an attachment has issued, it becomes the duty of the plaintiff to establish one or more of such grounds by a fair preponderance of the evidence at the hearing. Tested by this rule, the attachment in the present case must fall. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hall v. Raettig