Creath's Administrator v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
46 U.S. 192 · 1847
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2003 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
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 Moses Groves v. Robert Slaughter · McLemore v. Powell · Reynolds v. Ward · Lenox v. Prout
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That whosoever would seek admission into a court of equity must come with clean hands; that such a court will never interfere in opposition to conscience or good faith; and again, and in intimate connection with the principles just stated, that it will never be called into activity to remedy the consequences of laches or neglect, or the want of reasonable diligence.””
6 later decisions 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.