Reynes v. Dumont’s Empirical Analysis
130 U.S. 354 · 1889
Citation profile
183 federal appellate · 20 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 422 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1996 · most notably Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co. (1893)
183 federal appellate · 20 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 30 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 National Bank v. Insurance Co. · Embry v. Palmer · Oelrichs v. Spain · James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy
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 422 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a defendant in a suit in equity answers and submits to the jurisdiction of the court, it is too late for him to object that the plaintiff has a plain and adequate remedy at law. 1 Daniell, Ch. Pr. (4th Amer. Ed.) p. 555; Reynes v. Dumont, 130 U. S. 395 , 9 Sup. Ct. 486 [ 32 L. Ed. 934 ]; New Orleans v. Morris, 105 U. S. 600 [ 26 L. Ed. 1184 ]. Good faith and an early assertion of rights are as essential on the part of the defendant as of the complainant. Brown v. Iron Co., 134 U. S. 530 , 10 Sup. Ct. 604 [ 33 L. Ed. 1021 ].””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The doctrine of these and similar cases is that the court, for its own protection, may prevent matters purely cognizable at law from being drawn into chancery, at the pleasure of the parties interested; but it by no means follows, where the subject-matter belongs to the class over which a court of equity has jurisdiction, and the objection that the complainant has an adequate remedy at law is not made until the hearing in the appellate tribunal, that the latter can exercise no discretion in the disposition of such objection. Under the circumstances of this case, it comes altogether too late even though, if taken in limine, it might have’ been worthy of attention.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It does not arise upon securities accidentally in the possession of the bank, or not in its possession in the course of its business as such * * * ””
2 later decisions 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.