Pitzer v. Russel’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1933
2 district · 4 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 Inhabitants of Hanover v. Turner · Stuart v. Lander · Ames v. Hoy · Smith v. Mumford · White v. Hadnot
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Neither the common law nor the practice in the various States of the Republic, nor anything inherent in the subject, based on sound reason, gives to a judgment creditor an absolute right of action on a domestic judgment, unless such action is necessary in order to enable the plaintiff to have the full benefit of his judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That the plaintiff cannot claim a strict right to sue his judgment as often as he may choose, without showing any necessity for such corase.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knapp v. Knapp
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.