Earling v. John Emigh O L’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 27 · 1910
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1987 · most notably Frances Miedreich v. Constanze Lauenstein (1914), Interstate Amusement Co. v. Albert (1916)
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Central Transportation Co. v. Pullman's Palace Car Co. · Pullman's Co v. Central Transp Co · Logan County Nat Bank v. Townsend · Aldrich v. Chemical National Bank · Citizens' Central National Bank v. Appleton
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although restitution of property obtained under a contract which was illegal * * * cannot be adjudged by force-of the illegal contract, yet, as the obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, if one obtains the money or property of others without authority, the law, independently of express contract, will compel restitution or compensation.””
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.