Spears v. Preble’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2019
23 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 State Ex Rel. Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath, Inc. v. Harris · Cartwright v. Atlas Chemical Industries, Inc. · Electrolytic Chlorine Co. v. Wallace & Tiernan Co. · Snyder v. Nelson · State Ex Rel. Collins v. Parks
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a garnishment proceeding, there is a presumption in favor of the trial court's finding and the judgment will be affirmed unless the findings are clearly against the weight of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutes cireum-scribing intervals during which pleadings may be filed have generally been construed to fix a limit beyond which the pleading may not be filed without permission,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[elxtension of time to file an election to take issue with the answer of the garnishee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.