Ohlson v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statute requires that, ‘upon the receipt of any execution, the sheriff or other officer shall indorse thereon the year, month, day, and hour of the day, when he received the same.’ Section 2972, R. S. The only possible object of this statute is, that the officer shall proceed to levy executions in the precise order of time in which they are so received and indorsed, and to confer upon an execution plaintiff a priority of right to such levy, and therefore a prior lien upon the property of the execution defendant; for by another statute his personal property is not bound until seized under execution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Continental Distributing Co. v. Hays

2. ““This is not a case of mere negligence in not making a levy or in making an insufficient one, where only reasonable diligence under the circumstances would be required, but a case of the violation of a positive duty enjoined by law to levy executions in the order of time in which they come into the hands of the officer, upon all the property of the judgment debtor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reaume v. Winkelman