Smith v. Chadwick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the debtor,' who has a larger quantity of any kinds of provisions than the law exempts from attachment, sets apart no portion thereof for the use of his family before it is about to be attached, and makes no claim to any portion of it, when the officer is about to attach the whole, he cannot maintain an action against the officer, who takes the whole.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parsons v. Evans

2. ““We recognize that decision.as sound law. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parsons v. Evans