Fitch v. Waite’s Empirical Analysis
1823
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1982
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie moment of service is the precise period when a debt is attached, and if it be then existing it is secured by the process; but if it does not theiv exist no lien is created, as the operation of an attachment, from its nature, is immediate, and not prospective. A future liability is not attachable, for the conclusive reason that it is not a debt due.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.