Bourne v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.2d 937 · 1931
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grant v. A. B. Leach & Co. · Spidell v. Johnson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction of a court of equity extends no farther than is necessary to do some equitable thing; it has no jurisdiction to do useless, unjust, and inequitable things.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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