Bonifer v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
166 F. 846 · 1909
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005
7 federal appellate ·
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 Hutchings v. Low · Hy-Yu-Tse-Mil-Kin v. Philomme Smith · Lytle v. the State of Arkansas · Tarver v. Keach · Smith v. Bonifer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * If the selection so made by Philomme were prior in right to those of the appellants, and should have been allowed as made, equity will look upon that as done which ought to have been done, and will dispose of the rights of the parties as if the allotments had been allowed when the selections were made. “In Lytle et al. v. State of Arkansas et al., 9 How. 314 , 13 L.Ed. 153 , the court said: “ ‘It is a well-established principle that where an individual, in the prosecution of a right, does everything which the law requires him to do, and he fails to attain his right by the misconduct or neglect of a public officer, the law will protect it.’ ””
1 later decision 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.