Bird v. Plunkett’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Adzima v. UAC/Norden Division (1979), Thompson v. Orcutt (2001)
46 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 Riggs v. . Palmer · Perry v. Strawbridge · Slocum v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Tarlo's Estate · Price v. Hitaffer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim upon his own iniquity, or to acquire property by his own crime. These maxims are dictated by public policy, [and] have their foundation in universal law administered in all civilized countries.”
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.