Zoll v. Soper’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1958
3 federal appellate · 19 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 Merry v. Fremon · Titterington v. Hooker · George v. Williamson · Brown's Administrator v. Finley
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.
““So long as the right to the execution upon the judgment obtained continues, the creditor may go into equity to subject the land to the payment of his debt, for the reason that a sale under an execution in such case would be, in effect, but the sale of a lawsuit, and the land would be sacrificed, and no one could possibly be benefited materially but the purchaser, and he only in the event that he succeeded in setting aside the fraudulent deed. While the creditor might have the land sold on execution, equity will not compel him to pursue that ruinous course.””
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.