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68 U.S. 518 · 1863

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
10
cited 10 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
August 2010
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Sturm v. Boker (1893)

11 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions

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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 Randall v. Howard

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A proceeding like this is against good’ conscience and good morals, and cannot receive the sanction of a court of equity. The principle is too plain to need a citation of authorities .to confirm it. It is against the policy of the law to help either party in such controversies. The maxim, ‘ in pari delicto' etc., must prevail”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dent v. Ferguson · Hall v. Wright
  2. “.Generally, when a party obtains an advantage by fraud, he is to.be regarded as the'trustee of the party defrauded, and compelled to account. But, if a party seeks relief in equity, he must be able to show that on his part there has been honesty and fair dealing. If he has been engaged in an illegal business and been'cheated, equity will not help him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dent v. Ferguson

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.