Bennett v. Butterworth’s Empirical Analysis
52 U.S. 669 · 1850
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990 · most notably Scott v. Armstrong (1892), Scott v. Neely (1891)
44 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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.
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.
““The remedies in the courts of the United States are at common law or in equity, not according to the practice of the state courts, but according to the principles of common law and equity as distinguished and defined in that country from which we derive our knowledge of these principles; and although the forms of proceedings and practice in the state courts shall have been adopted in the 05 mi it Courts bf the United States, yet the adoption of the state jirat-iice must not lie understood as confounding the principles of law and equity, nor as authorizing legal and equitable claims to be blended together in one suit.’’”
5 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.