Nuzum v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1987
5 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 Neely v. Jones · Morrill v. Morrill
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Mitchell v. Oldfield, [4 T. R. 123], it is said that the authority of the court to set off opposite judgments did not depend on the statutes of set off but on the general jurisdiction of the court over the suitors in it; that it was an equitable part of this jurisdiction and had been frequently exercised. The same doctrine is strongly and clearly announced in Williams v. Evans, 2 McCord, and in 3 Watts, in Tuck, Corn’s, and in Montague on Set-Off, [5, 6 and 7]. The courts have been gradually extending this equitable remedy. (Barker v. Braham, [2 Blackst. 896]); and opposite demands arising upon judgments may on motion be set off against each other, whenever such set-off is equitable, though the judgments are in different courts, and though all the parties to the different records are not the same. ... [A]ll applications of this kind, as they are founded on no positive statute or any fixed rule which compels the court to grant them, are addressed to the discretion of the court; ...””
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.