Edmund Gaines and Wife v. Beverly Chew Rich’s Empirical Analysis
43 U.S. 619 · 1844
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1982 · most notably Barney v. Latham (1880), Gaines v. Fuentes (1875)
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Robinson v. Campbell · United States v. Howland · Jackson v. Chew · Armstrong v. Lear
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every case must be governed by its own circumstances; and as these are as diversified as tbe names of tbe parties, tbe court must exercise a sound discretion on tbe'subject Whilst parties should not be subjected to expense and inconvenience, in litigating matters in which they have no interest, multiplicity of suits should be avoided, by uniting in one bill all who have'an interest in the principal matter in controversy, though the interest may have arisen under distinct contracts.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The complainants have made defendants the executors named in the will of 1811, and all who have come to the possession of property, real and personal,' by purchase or otherwise, which belonged to Daniel Clark at the timo of his death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fowler v. Palmer“One man possesses himself wrongfully and fraudulently of the property of another; in equity, he holds such property in trust, for the rightful owner.”
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.