Lincoln Trust Co. v. Nathan’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Mathews v. Sniggs (1919), Haydon v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad (1909)
42 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 Courtney v. Blackwell · Allen v. Logan · Martin v. Turnbaugh · Dunn v. McCoy · Swon v. Stevens
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The infirmity underlying this position is that the answer does not simply interpose an equitable defense, but it is a cross-bill in equity, asking affirmative relief, which, if granted, as it was, would cut out the foundations upon which the plaintiffs’ right to recover depended, and therefore destroyed the plaintiffs’ case. This accentuates the difference between a mere equitable defense and a cross-bill in equity asking affirmative relief, which, if granted, destroys the plaintiffs’ case. This being true, the answer and cross-bill converted this case into one in equity, and a trial by jury was properly denied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.