Wakefield v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2019
20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Middleton v. Findla · Fallon v. Kehoe · Hommel v. Devinney · Lyon v. Kain · Morse v. Carpenter
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the same principle, if the defendant brought a writ of error, and thereby hindered the plaintiff from taking his execution within a year, and the plaintiff in error was nonsuited, or the judgment affirmed, the defendant in error might proceed to execution after the year, without scire facias, because the writ of error was a supersedeas to the execution, and the plaintiff must acquiesce until he hears the judgment above. The reason for this is that the stay of execution being with the consent and for the benefit of the judgment debtor, and the injunction or writ of error being his own act, he should not take advantage of them, nor could he be surprised or prejudiced by the delay, because that delay was in fact referable to himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albert v. Patterson
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.