Rice Adams Corporation v. Lathrop’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 509 · 1929
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 30 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), State of Texas v. State of Florida (1939)
80 federal appellate · 30 district · 12 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 Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Greene v. Louisville & Interurban Railroad · Root v. Railway Co. · Thomson v. Wooster · McGowan v. Parish · Clark Ex'X v. Wooster
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 210 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/ and to this end, having properly acquired jurisdiction of the cause for any purpose, it will ordinarily retain jurisdiction for all purposes, including the determination of legal rights that otherwise would fall within the exclusive authority of a court of law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No ground for equitable jurisdiction properly could be alleged, for, plainly, none existed, and the bill was merely for an accounting of profits and damages, the remedy at law which was complete.”
1 later decision 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.