Gillespie v. Lovell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If this was purely a suit in equity to foreclose a mechanic’s lien, a suit in which no personal judgment could be rendered, probably an attachment would not lie, but as it is not such a suit, as it is an action in which-a personal judgment is allowed by law, a judgment that will not only reach the property upon which the mechanic’s lien exists, but will also reach all the property of the judgment debtor not exempt by law from execution, a judgment upon which an ordinary execution may be issued, there seems to be no good reason why an attachment may not be -issued in this case as in other cases. The language of the statute is certainly broad enough.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hendrickson v. Brown

2. ““Under section 190 of the Civil Code, laws of 1870, p. 171, the plaintiff may have an attachment in every ‘civil action for the recovery "of money.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kidd v. Seifert