Beavans v. Groff’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 11 Cal. 2d 621 - Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. Monson (1938), Stoops v. Stoops (1953)
26 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 Pierce v. United States · Towns v. Smith · Baker v. State ex rel. Mills · Minor v. Sumner · Wild v. Noblesville Building, Loan Fund & Savings Institution
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have for their sole purpose the removal of obstacles which prevent the enforcement of the judgment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Both the statutory proceeding supplemental to execution and equitable proceedings such as are here under consideration operate in rem. The judgment creditor may not pursue the same property in repeated proceedings, but he may have different property made subject- to his judgment by successive proceedings.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“entitled to successive executions against the property of his judgment debtors, in different counties, until his judgment was fully paid, after which he was entitled to no further executions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.