Ex parte Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 647 · 1881
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1990 · most notably Slocum v. New York Life Insurance (1913), Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. (1891)
13 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 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 Wayman v. Southard · Boyle v. Zacharie · Andrew Duncan v. Isaac Darst · Palmer v. Allen
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a mere matter of procedure, not involving the substance of any equitable right; and may be located, by legislative authority to meet the requirements of judicial convenience."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It follows, then, that although at one time courts of equity would entertain bills of discovery in aid of executions at law, because courts of law were not armed with adequate powers to execute their own process, yet the moment those powers were sufficiently enlarged by competent authority to accomplish the same beneficial result, the jurisdiction in equity, if.it did not cease as unwarranted, would at least become inoperative and obsolete. A bill in equity to compel disclosures from a- plaintiff or a defendant of matters of fact peculiarly within his knowledge, essential to the maintenance of the legal rights of either in' a pending suit at law, would scarcely be resorted to, unless under special circumstances, now, when parties are competent witnesses, and can be compelled to answer under oath all relevant interrogatories properly exhibited.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. 916. The party recovering a judgment in any common-law cause in any circuit or district court, shall be entitled to similar remedies upon the same, by execution or otherwise, to reach the property of the judgment debtor, as are not provided in like causes, by the laws of the state in which such court is held, or by any such laws hereafter enacted -which may be adopted by general rules of such circuit or district court; and such courts may, from time to time, by general rules, adopt such state laws as may hereafter be in force in such state in relation to remedies upon judgments, as aforesaid, by execution or otherwise.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.