Dawley v. Sherwin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is impossible, frequently, for a creditor to ascertain whether' a debtor has actually consummated a fraudulent transfer of his property, or whether he is about to do so; and therefore the Legislature has made these one ground for an attachment. Fraudulent sales are generally secret; and it may be very difficult to say, at a given moment, whether they are fully accomplished or not. 'Hence a party is permitted to state his case in the alternative, that the defendant has assigned, disposed of, or concealed, or is about to assign, dispose of, or conceal, his property, with intent to defraud his creditors.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peoples State Bank v. Karlen