Loughran v. Loughran’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 216 · 1934
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 20 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 394 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Lutwak v. United States (1953), Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co (1945)
120 federal appellate · 20 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLoughran v. Loughran (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Fauntleroy v. Lum · Home Ins Co v. Dick · Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper
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 394 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equity does not demand that its suitors shall have led blameless lives.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts grant relief against present wrongs and to enforce an existing right, although the property involved was acquired by some past illegal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sears v. Sears“courts of the District . . . equally with courts of the states”
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.