Spaulding v. Backus’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. (1937), Saugus General Hospital Inc Sisk v. Saugus Bank and Trust Company (1983)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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 Hendrickson v. Hinckley · Cobb v. City of Boston · Smith v. . Felton · Whitney v. Whitman · Brown v. President of the Maine Bank
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some peculiar equity which entitled him to be protected against his adversary's demand.”
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.