Lindsay v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Boykins Narrow Fabrics Corp. v. Weldon Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc. (1980), Boucher v. Boyer (1984)
5 federal appellate · 35 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 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Walker · Cook v. Totten · Walters v. Smith · Payne v. Godwin · Spilling v. Hutcheson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is essential to the application of the principles of equitable estoppel, . . . that the party claiming to have been influenced by the conduct or declarations of another to his injury, was not only ignorant of the true state of facts, but had no convenient and available means of acquiring such information, and where the facts are known to both parties, and both had the same means of ascertaining the truth, there can be no estoppel.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If parties, for valuable consideration, with their eyes open, contract that a particular thing shall not be done, all that a court of equity has to do is to say by way of injunction that which the parties have already said by way of covenant — that the thing shall not be done; and in such case the injunction does nothing more than give the sanction of the process of the court to that which already is the contract between the parties. It is not, then, a question of convenience or inconvenience, or of the amount of damage or injury. It is the specific performance, by the court, of that negative bargain which the parties have made, with their eyes open, between themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The principles established by the Virginia decisions may be summarized as follows: (1) When land is subdivided into lots, streets and alleys, and lots are sold and conveyed by reference to the plat, without reservation, the conveyances carry with them the right to the use of such streets and alleys as may be necessary to the enjoyment and value of said lots; (2) purchasers acquiring such lots are presumed to be interested in all streets and alleys shown on the plat on v/hich their lots are located; (3) but this is a presumption of fact and may be rebutted by a showing that the easement in the way in question is not necessary to the enjoyment and value of said lots.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Beavers
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.