McDearmott v. Sedgwick’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1976 · most notably Kelerher v. Henderson (1907), Schoene v. Hickam (1965)
31 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 Armstrong v. American Exch Nat Bank of Chicago · Gelatt v. Ridge · Atlee v. Fink · Sprague v. Rooney · St. Louis Agricultural & Mechanical Ass'n v. Delano
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle is well settled that `no court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or illegal act.' This is a principle founded upon public policy `not for the sake of the defendant, but for the law's sake, and that only.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demayo v. Lyons
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.