Boylan v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 10 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Does' an officer hold money in his official capacity after he has been directed by the court, whose instrument he is, to pay the same to the party to whom it belongs? Is not his legal custody, and through him the custody of the law, then at an end? After such direction of the court, and before his payment pursuant thereto, to whom is his liability? The custody then rightfully belongs to the owner. The officer thereafter holds the money for him, not for the law, because the law has done with it and fulfilled its administration.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Challenge Co. v. Sartin

2. ““Are special commissioners in a chancery cause, who have in their hands money arising out of said cause, belonging to a judgment debtor, and the amount of which by decree therein has been directed to be paid to the said owner, liable as garnishees of such judgment debtor upon proper suggestion proceedings in the premises?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Challenge Co. v. Sartin

3. ““Official duty ceases when the court directs the officer to pay over the fund. After the confirmation of a sale by a commissioner and an order of distribution of the purchase money of the land sold, such commissioner may be held as garnishee."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Challenge Co. v. Sartin