Brown v. Pegram’s Empirical Analysis
149 F. 515 · 1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1932
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Marshall v. Holmes · Embry v. Palmer · North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. v. St. Louis Ore & Steel Co. · Scammon v. Kimball · Knox County v. Harshman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Cross-demands and counterclaims, whether arising out of the same or wholly disconnected transactions, and. whether liquidated or unliquidated, may he enforced by way of set-oif whenever the circumstances are such as to warrant the interference of equity to prevent wrong and injustice. Again, it Is well established that equity will entertain jurisdiction and afford relief against the collection of a judgment where in justice and good conscience it ought not to he enforced, as where there is a meritorious equitable defense thereto, which could not have been set up at law, or which the party was, without fault -ot negligence, prevented from interposing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwarz v. Harris
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.