Bartle v. Nutt’s Empirical Analysis
29 U.S. 184 · 1830
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991 · most notably Sorrells v. United States (1932), Olmstead v. United States (1928)
9 federal appellate · 19 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law leaves the parties to such a contract as it found them.' If either has sustained a loss by the bad faith of a particeps crimmis, it is but a just infliction for premeditated and deeply practised fraud; which, when detected, deprives him of anticipated profits, or subjects him to unexpected losses. He must not expect that a judicial tribunal will degrade itself by an exertion of its powers, by shifting the loss from the one to the other; or to equalize the benefits or burthens which may have resulted by the violation of every principle of morals and of laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dent v. Ferguson
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.