Northrup v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1988
12 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No creditor, without process, and without authority or right, except such as belongs to him as creditor, can dispossess his debtor of his goods, and then mitigate or defeat a recovery by showing that the property taken has, without any assent or concession of the debtor, been applied on the debt.””
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.