Toth v. Toth’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1976
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Cain v. Miller · Kutchai v. Kutchai · Nixon v. Wright · Brown v. Brown · Bowman v. Wayne Circuit Judge
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If the garnishment proceeding is based on a prior decree, rendered in a. court of chancery, it is necessary to sue over in a court of law and to issue the garnishment writ in the county where the suit at law on the decree is commenced. The writ of garnishment cannot be sued out of a court of chancery; neither can it stand alone in a court of law, as above stated; and the two courts are distinct. While garnishment, in other words, may be based on an indebtedness on decree, it cannot be based on the decree itself.’ 1 Stevens’ Michigan Practice, p. 144.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A party in default in payment of alimony * * * may be imprisoned (3 Comp. Laws 1915, Section 11443 et seq.); and this is on the theory that a decree for alimony is not a debt, within the contemplation of Section 20, Art. 2, state Constitution, forbidding imprisonment for debt. 30 A. L. R. 130, note; Bowman v. Wayne Circuit Judge, 214 Mich. 518 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Fuller““A judgment or decree for money that is final is a debt (17 C. J. p. 1372), and may form a basis of an action in 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.