Riggin v. Hillard’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1976 · most notably Townsend v. Cleveland Fire Proofing Co. (1897), Horstmann v. LaFargue (1919)
30 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.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Bourbon County · Pendleton v. Perkins · Rodman v. Sanders · Boone County v. Keck · Roeller v. Ames
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Section 6297. In suits to set aside fraudulent conveyances and to obtain equitable garnishments, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to obtain judgment at law in order to prove insolvency, but in such cases insolvency may be proved by any competent testimony, so that only one suit shall be necessary in order to obtain the proper relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But the remedies of equity are not fixed and unbending, like the legal process of garnishment; and if the court can ascertain that no inconvenience can result to the public by its interference with the corporation’s right to pay the debt directly to its debtor, there is nothing to prevent the court from doing so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dow v. Irwin
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.