Craig v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2016
2 district · 18 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 Coit v. Sistare · Morgan v. New York National Building & Loan Ass'n · Bennett v. Ives · Bowen, Admr. v. Nat. Life Asso. · Bassett v. McKenna
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to continue the original action being established, the attachment will not embarrass or delay the settlement of the estate any more than any other lien. Its continuance, especially if the estate turn (sic) out to be insolvent, is in harmony with the rule that a digilent [diligent] creditor CT Page 5228 is entitled to the fruits of his activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At the common law the death of a sole defendant before judgment would have abated such an action absolutely, and the plaintiff would have been put to a new action against the executor”
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.