Bell v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably Hobbs v. Boatright (1906), Colby v. Title Insurance & Trust Co. (1911)
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Eadie v. . Slimmon · Whelan v. Reilly · Foley v. Greene · Town of Sharon v. Gager · Buck v. First National 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is urged that, if the deed of trust and notes executed by the plaintiff had been given through fear of Carter’s criminal prosecution and in order to prevent the same, then she stands in pari delicto with the other parties to the transaction, and therefore could have no relief against the enforcement of those writings obligatory. There are two answers to this contention: First. Granting that plaintiff did enter into the contract with that purpose in view, she will not be debarred from pursuing her remedy, because she cannot in any event be regarded as equally culpable with the adversary parties. When this is the case, a court of equity will interfere and go to the relief of the less guilty party, whose transgression has been brought about by the imposition, undue influence, etc., of the party on whom the burden of the original blameworthiness principally rests.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Stewart
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.