Bowman v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1810
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“become pernicious in practice, by bringing the dishonesty and cunning of some to operate upon the honest credulity of others. And to permit fraud to elude the vigilance of chancery, by cunning, ... seems too repugnant to the administration of justice, the protection of right, and the suppression of wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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