Willis v. Lyman, Sears & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There can be no good reason why the same strictness should not be required in respect to garnishments, as in other cases of attachment; for garnishments are but a species of attachment. The writ of garnishment brings into court strangers to the judgment, or to the original suit,' as the case may be, and subjects them to much inconvenience and hazard. It often happens, or to say the least, it sometimes happens, that garnishees are obliged to pay twice, because the court is not informed of all the facts in the particular case. For these reasons, proceedings against garnishees ought not to be sustained, unless they are in strict conformity with the requirements of the law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barker v. Security State Bank of Bowie

2. ““The petition, in the present case, is signed by ‘Fly & Fly, Attorneys for Plaintiffs,’ and the affidavit is made by B. F. Fly, who does not, in the affidavit, describe himself as either the agent or the attorney of the plaintiffs. The court cannot know that the person who makes the affidavit is one of the persons who signed the petition as attorneys for the plaintiffs; nor will the court look to the records, in the original suit, to. find information which ought to bo contained in the affidavit itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hook v. Payne

3. “the defendant or defendants hath or have no property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. City Nat. Bank of Wichita Falls