Livingston v. Woodworth’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 546 · 1853
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Mertens v. Hewitt Associates (1993), Tilghman v. Proctor (1888)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Bloomer v. McQuewan · James Wilson v. Lewis Rousseau · Atkinson v. Manks · Pratt v. Thomas Law
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the ... plaintiffs ... had sustained an injury to their legal rights, the courts of law were open to them for redress, and in those courts they might ... have claimed not compensation merely, but vengeance ... But before a[n equity] tribunal which refuses to listen even to any, save those whose acts and motives are perfectly fair and liberal, they cannot be permitted to contravene the highest and most benignant principle of the being and constitution of that tribunal,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are aware or no rule which converts a court oí equity into an instrument for the punishment of simple torts.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“well-established rules of equity jurisprudence”
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.