Case v. Beauregard’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 688 · 1879
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 24 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank (1940), Heiser v. Woodruff (1946)
75 federal appellate · 24 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Case v. Beauregard · Tappan v. Evans · Holt & Chambers v. Bancroft · George Day Bowen Matlock Isaac Frothingham and George Warner v. William a Washburn and John a Keith
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * It may be said that whenever a creditor has a trust in his favor or a lien upon property for the deM due him he may go into equity without exhausting legal processes or remedies.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever a creditor has a trust in his favor, or a lien upon property for the debt due him, he may go into equity without exhausting his remedy at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ziska v. Ziska
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.