Benjamin Humphreys v. Leggett Smith and Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
50 U.S. 297 · 1850
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), United States v. Ayala (1990)
18 federal appellate · 4 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 Borden v. Fitch · Truly v. Wanzer · King v. Baldwin · Chase v. Hathaway
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case before us, the surety had been compelled to pay the whole amount of his bond by process from the State courts, before the present defendants obtained their judgment against him, but after the institution of their suit. This would have been a good defence to the action if pleaded puis darrein continuance * * * ” p. 313, 13 L.Ed. 145”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rolen v. Rauhuff“[i]t may be stated as a general principle with regard to injunctions after a judgment at law [writs of audita querela ], that any fact which proves it to be against conscience to execute such judgment, and of which the party could not have availed himself in a court of law.”
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.