Goodwillie v. Millimann’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1978 · most notably 56 Ill. App. 3d 446 - Fox v. Fox (1978), Lombard v. Witbeck (1898)
32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a large class of money decrees the constitution has prohibited imprisonment, unless there is fraud on the part of the debtor, or he shall refuse to surrender his property for the satisfaction of his debts. When such a regard is shown" by the people, in adopting the fundamental law, for the liberty of the citizen, the remedy of enforcing decrees by imprisonment should be limited to cases of necessity only, in accordance with the spirit that dictated the constitutional restriction.””
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.