Humphrey v. Gerard’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council (1921), Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Town of Oxford (1924)
2 district · 27 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 Gilman v. . Tucker · G. & D. Taylor & Co. v. R. G. & J. T. Place · Inhabitants of Goshen v. Inhabitants of Stonington · Atwood v. Buckingham · Smith v. Gilbert
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But not all interests in property can be appropriated by a levy of execution upon the property. That of a mortgagee cannot. Huntington v. Smith, 4 Conn. 235, 237 ; McKelvey v. Creevey, 72 id. 464, 467, 45 Atl. 4 ; Pettus v. Gault, 81 Conn. 415, 419 , 71 Atl. 509 . In like manner an interest which is so indeterminate, uncertain, or contingent that it is incapable of being appraised or sold with fairness to both the debtor and creditor, may not be thus levied upon.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is the policy of our law that all the property of a debtor should be responsible for his [sic] debts, and in consonance with this policy we have held that our statutes regulating attachments and executions subject to these processes certain equitable interests in property", id. p. 355.”
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.