Richard Bein and Mary His Wife v. Mary Heath’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 228 · 1848
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co (1945), Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. (1933)
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Deming v. Bailey
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he equitable powers of this court can never be exerted in behalf of one who has acted fraudulently, or who by deceit or any unfair means has gained an advantage. To aid a party in such a case would make this court the abettor of iniquity.”
7 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.