Branham v. Stallings’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2012
11 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 Nellis v. Clark · Solinger v. . Earle · Setter v. Alvey
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When the parties to an illegal or fraudulent contract are in pari delicto, neither a court of equity nor a court of' law will aid either of them in enforcing the execution of that which may be executory, or in revoking or rescinding that which may have been executed. In such a case, the law will not be the instrument of its own subversion, and, to every invocation of its assistance, replies, ‘In pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.