Wheatcroft v. SMITH’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2023
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Central Contracting Co. v. C. E. Youngdahl & Co. · Weicht v. Automobile Banking Corp. · Bulkley v. Eckert · Ostroff v. Yaslyk · OSTROFF v. Yaslyk
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“funds in the hands of the Commonwealth or its political subdivisions, owing to individuals, are not attachable since the public policy holds that the government should be free from the annoyance and uncertainty arising out of disputes between the individual to whom the money is owed and those claiming a right therein by garnishment.”
1 later decision 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.