Desmet v. Sublett’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Martinez v. Research Park, Inc. (1965), Sierra Blanca Sales Co., Inc. v. Newco Industries, Inc. (1972)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 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 Bounds v. Carner · Boylston Bottling Co. v. O'Neill · Lloyd v. North Carolina Railroad · White v. Shawnee Milling Co. · Voss v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a well settled rule of law that a person cannot maintain an action if, in order to establish his cause of action, he must rely, in whole or in part, on an illegal or immoral act or transaction to which he is a party, or where he must base his cause of action, in whole or in part, on a violation by himself of the criminal or penal laws.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.