Gowan v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1937
9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To our minds it is perfectly clear that the statute only authorizes the commencement of an action on a debt not due, for the purpose of an attachment, on condition that the requisite affidavit is made, and the proper undertaking executed and delivered. The giving of an undertaking for three times the amount demanded is as essential to the right to maintain the action as the making of the affidavit. Both things are absolutely necessary and requisite, when the debt is not due, and the omission of either is fatal to the action. This is the plain meaning of the statute; any other construction would do violence to the language.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradley v. Kroft
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.