William Tyrell's Heirs v. Andrew Rountree’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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

1. ““The counsel for the plaintiffs in error has argued the cause as if the process under which the sale was made had been the usual execution awarded on a judgment rendered against a person brought into court by regular process. ‘Without inquiring whether his objections to the charge would have been Avell founded had that been the character of the case, it is sufficient to observe that in the actual cause the land itself Avas attached. Not having been released, it remained in the custody of the officer, subject to the judgment of the court. An interest Avas vested in him for the purposes of that judgment. The judgment did not create a general lien on it, but was a specific appropriation of the property itself to the satisfaction of that particular judgment. The process Avhich issued did not direct the officer to tevy it on the property of the defendants, but to sell that specific property which was already in his possession by virtue of the attachment, and was already condemned by the judgment of the competent tribunal. The subsequent diA-ision o£ the county could not deA-est. this vested interest, nor deprive the officer of the power to finish a process which was rightly begun.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Evans-Snider-Buel Co. v. McFadden