Reilly v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1917
5 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 Winslow v. Urquhart · Jacobs v. Knapp · Shaw v. Bradley · Redington v. Frye · Collins v. Cowan
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proceedings to enforce a lien upon logs of the owner who is not in contract relations with the lienor, under this statute, assume a double aspect. As to the defendant in the suit, the proceeding is in personam, and the judgment obtained is a personal one, while the attachment against the logs of the owner is in the nature of a proceeding in rem. It is essential to the validity of proceedings in rem that notice shall be given of the time and place of condemnation. What, this notice shall be the legislature must prescribe. An opportunity’ must be given to the owner of the res to appear and contest the validity of the lien, and the amount due.” Reilly v. Stephenson, 62 Mich. 509 ( 29 N. W. 99 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Hughes
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.