Winter v. Union Packing Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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

1. ““An application to the court to discharge an attachment on giving an undertaking, conditioned to pay any judgment that may be recovered in the action, may well be held to be an acknowledgment of the jurisdiction of the court over the person, and render a defendant liable to be proceeded against, as in case of personal service; but no such effect can be accorded a mere undertaking to redeliver the attached property or pay its value to the officer to whom execution upon the judgment recovered by the plaintiff in the action may issue. The one is an obligation to pay any judgment which may be recovered if the attachment is dissolved by the court, and the other is a mere engagement of the obligors to redeliver the property or pay its value to the officer, in case plaintiff should recover judgment and execution should be issued thereon, and does not affect the lien of the attachment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. House v. Smith's Cashway, Inc.