Eddy v. Eddy’s Empirical Analysis
168 F. 590 · 1909
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1961
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Covell v. Heyman · Byers v. McAuley · Payne v. Hook · Krippendorf v. Hyde
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.
““It has always been the rule in equity that the defendant’s fraudulent concealment of a cause of action will postpone the running of the statute until such time as the plaintiff discovers the fraud. The defendant having, by his own wrongdoing, prevented the plaintiff from instituting his suit, will not be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong by setting up the statute as ¡i defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * It did not matter that his (executor’s) appointment had not yet been confirmed. It was expected that it shortly would be, and he was then acting in that character and in behalf of the estate. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Campbell v. Owen
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.