Spooner v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1929
18 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 Burgert v. Borchert · Capital Bank v. Armstrong · Pier v. Heinrichoffen · McCoy v. Hyatt · Hart v. Fitzgerald
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.
““An interplea is in the nature of a replevin, engrafted by statute on the proceeding in attachment. (Bengert v. Borchert, 59 Mo. 85 .) Certainly, then, it will not lie where the action of replevin will not. The very object of the action in replevin is the recovery of specific personal property, in kind. It partakes in this respect of the nature of a proceeding in rem. (Wells Replev. secs. 33-34.) * * * Especially is this true of an interplea. It is a claim for the recovery of the possession of the specific thing. Unlike the action of replevin, no money judgment in damages can be awarded in lieu of the specific property claimed. It is peculiarly a possessory action, The right to present possession of the property being the principal question in controversy.’ (Wells Replev. sec. 39.) It involves the exclusive right of the claimant to the immediate possession of the chattel, and the fact of the wrongful detention thereof by the defendant as against the claimant. (Ib. 46, 94, 98; Hunt v. Chambers, 1 Zab. 21 N. Y. 623 ; Kingsberry v. Buchanan, 11 Iowa 397 ; Noble v. Epperly, 6 Port. [Ind.] 416.)””
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.