Waller v. Eanes'’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2007
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Clay v. Butler · Nunnally v. Stokes
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a well known limitation to this rule. Where the parties are not in pari delicto, that is where one of the parties is less blameworthy than the other, the rule does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. McCarthy“Even if the parties are in pari delicto, equity will enforce an illegal contract or grant relief from it, whenever it appears that to do so would promote public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. McCarthy
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.