Snell v. Rue’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1978
9 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 Morningstar v. Selby · Beall v. McMenemy · State ex rel. Chemical National Bank v. School District No. 9 · Gerecke v. Campbell · Gillespie v. Switzer
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In tins state a judgment does not lose its vital force by the expiration of five years after its rendition without the issuance of an execution thereupon. It is not dead, but sleepeth. This court has held that a sale of real estate made upon a dormant judgment cannot be attacked collaterally after confirmation (Gillespie v. Switzer, 43 Neb. 772 ), and that the payment of a dormant judgment cannot be recovered back (Gerecke v. Campbell, 24 Neb. 306 ). In some states, at the expiration of the statutory period, a judgment becomes actuallv dead and is possessed of no force or potency for any purpose whatsoever, but such is not the case in Nebraska.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Furer v. Holmes
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.