Randall v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
67 U.S. 585 · 1862
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1954 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Shappirio v. Goldberg (1904)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Orear v. McDonald
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fraudulent agreement was entered •into to defeat, as is charged, a fraud attempted against the complainants.’ ... A court of equity will not intervene to give relief to either party from the consequences of such an agreement. The maxim, in pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis, must prevail. It is against the policy of the law to enable either, party, in controversies between themselves, to enforce an agreement in fraud of the law, or which was made to injure another;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dent v. Ferguson · Wheeler v. Sage
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.