Joseph Parker Camp v. Kate Willard Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 530 · 1913
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 38 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Porter v. Warner Holding Co. (1946), Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. (1926)
94 federal appellate · 38 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Holland v. Challen · Reynes v. Dumont · Kilbourn v. Sunderland · Oelrichs v. Spain
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity ought to do justice completely, and not by halves. As a court of equity should prevent multiplicity of suits, it may, to this end, if obliged to take cognizance of a suit for any purpose, retain it for all purposes, even though this requires it to determine purely legal rights that are otherwise beyond its authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. Speed““A court of equity ought to do justice completely and not by halves. As a court of equity should prevent multiplicity of suits, it may, to this end, if obliged to take cognizance of a suit for any purpose, retain it for all purposes, even though íequired to determine purely legal rights otherwise beyond its authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Madansky
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.