Powers v. Hurmert’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1988
3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Relation is sometimes allowed to prevent injustice, as when an attachment has been issued and levied without sufficient affidavit, and an amended .affidavit is afterwards made it will relate back so as to uphold the attachment and uphold the previous levy. But, in that case, the right to the attachment and its levy existed at the time, and only lacked the formality of a sufficient affidavit.””
1 later decision 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.