White v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is said in Drake on Attachment, § 697, that the garnishee will be protected against a second payment although there may be in the proceedings against the defendant errors and irregularities, for which the defendant himself might obtain their reversal. The author says, ‘it has been always held that a garnishee cannot avoid or reverse a judgment against him on account of mere irregularities in the proceedings in the main action. They only affect the defendant, and he alone can take advantage of them. Nor can he assume to inquire into the merits of the cause, as between the plaintiff and the defendant, or,-after judgment against the defendant, to show that the plaintiff had no just demand against the defendant, or that the judgment ought to be altered or reversed.’ It is also said that, in relation to the judgment against the defendant, the garnishee stands as an entire stranger.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carlton v. Hoff