Bausman v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Aronovitch v. Levy (1953), Warren v. Adams (1894)
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Lewis v. Buck · School District No. 8 v. Lynch · Samuels v. Borrowscale · Roche v. Farnsworth · Niles v. Ransford
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * He [who seeks equitable relief] cannot invoke equitable relief and at the same time insist that the court shall not regard any fact in the conduct or relations of the parties which may show his suit to be inequitable and against conscience.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aronovitch v. Levy
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.