Hagan v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

52 federal appellate · 18 district · 48 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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[P]roperty could not be subject to two jurisdictions at the same time. The first levy, whether it were made under the federal or state authority, withdraws the property from the reach of the process of the other.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Covell v. Heyman · Coffin v. . Harris

2. ““ * * * property once levied on remains in the custody of the law, and it is not liable to be taken by another execution in the hands of a different officer; and especially by an officer acting under a different jurisdiction.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Covell v. Heyman · Herman v. Siney

3. ““ If the property be liable to execution, a levy must always produce a forfeiture of the condition of the bond; for a levy takes the property out of the possession of the claimant, and renders the performance of this bond impossible. Can a result so repugnant to equity and propriety as this be sustained ? Is the law so inconsistent as to authorize the means by which the discharge of a legal obligation is defeated, and at the same time exact a penalty for the forfeiture ? This would indeed be a reproach to the law and to justice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunt v. Robinson