Thurber v. . Blanck’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1929 · most notably American Surety Co. v. Conner (1929), Quarl v. Abbett (1885)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Debts and choses in action are to be regarded as legal assets under the attachment laws, wherever that process acts directly upon the legal title; but, whenever they are so situated as to require the exercise of the equity powers of the court to place them in that situation, they must be treated as they always were,—as equitable assets only.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.