Kirkman v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1994
3 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 Edwards v. Kearzey · Bronson v. Kinzie · McGahey v. State of Virginia · Perego v. Dodge · Tennessee v. Sneed
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a matter of common knowledge that, at the time and previous to the passage of the act limiting the remedy by garnishment, many . .. citizens of the state [had families to support] ... and that, owing to the financial crisis which prevailed, it was a difficult task for the laborer to earn sufficient to properly support his family.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Stewart“The earnings of the judgment debtor for personal services rendered within sixty days next preceding the levy of the execution, by garnishment or otherwise, if the judgment debtor be a married man, or with a family dependent upon him for support [are exempt from execution].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Stewart
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.