Wheeler v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1967 · most notably Nelson v. Abraham (1947), Welch v. Alcott (1921)
1 district · 23 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 Rogers v. Hosack's Executors · Loomis v. Marshall · Hathaway v. Davis · Muzzy v. Whitney
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only remaining specification of error is based upon the alleged insufficiency of the affidavit for attachment. The objection that the affidavit was made before the commencement of the suit, is manifestly untenable. Although, under our code, a writ of attachment cannot properly issue until after the commencement of the suit, to which it is only auxiliary, still there seems to be no valid objection to a complete preparation of all the papers requisite to the writ of attachment before or at the same time the complaint is prepared, so that the affidavit and undertaking in attachment be not filed in advance of the original complaint, and the writ not issued in advance of the summons and certified copy of the complaint, to which it is incident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ortiz v. Quiñones
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.