Eddy v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1835
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1935
1 federal appellate · 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a most favorable way in which-he [the defendant] can be sued. He can be liable no further than the money he has received, and against that may go into every equitable defense upon the general issues. He may claim every equitable allowance; in short, he may defend himself by everything which shows that the plaintiff ex aequo et bono is not entitled to the whole of his demand, or any part of if.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tompkins v. Drennen
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.