Ellicott v. Warford’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1984
8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appointment of a receiver does not determine any right or affect the title of either party in any manner whatever. He is the officer of the court, and truly the hand of the court. His holding is the holding of the court from him from whom the possession was taken. He is appointed on behalf of all parties, and not of the plaintiff or of one defendant only. His appointment is not to oust any party of his right to the possession of the property, but merely to retain it for the benéfit of the party who may ultimately appear to be entitled to it.” (Ellicott v. Warford, 4 Md. 85 ; High Receivers, pp. 2, 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Hough
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.