Jones v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
68 U.S. 330 · 1863
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Greenlaw v. United States (2008), Straton v. New (1931)
12 federal appellate · 25 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Seybert v. City of Pittsburg
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity exercises its jurisdiction in favor of a judgment creditor only when the remedy afforded him at law is ineffectual to reach the property of the debtor, or the enforcement of a legal remedy is obstructed by some incumbrance upon the debtor’s property, or some fraudulent transfer of it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘‘A court of equity exercises its jurisdiction in favor of a judgment creditor: only when tbe remedy afforded him at law is ineffectual to reach the property of .the debtor, or the enforcement of the legal remedy is obstructed by some incumbrance upon the debtor’s property, or some fraudulent transfer of it. * * * In the- second case the equitable relief sought rests upon the fact that the execution has issued and a specific lien has been acquired upon the property of the debtor by its levy, but that the obstruction interposed prevente a sale of the property at a fair valuation. It is to remove the obstruction, and thus enable the creditor to obtain a full price for the property, that the suit is brought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beswick v. Dorris““The execution shows that the remedy afforded at law has been pursued, and is, of course, the highest evidence of the fact. The return shows whether the remedy has proved effectual or, not, and, from the embarrassments which would attend any other nile, the return is held conclusive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bidwell v. Huff
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.