Coppell v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 federal appellate · 4 district · 72 state decisions

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

1. ““ ... In such cases there can be no waiver. The defense is allowed, not for the sake of the defendant, but of the law itself. The principle is indispensable to the purity of its administration. It will not enforce what it has forbidden and denounced. The maxim, ex dolo malo non oritur actio, is limited by no such qualification. The proposition to the contrary strikes us as hardly worthy of serious refutation. Whenever the illegality appears, whether the evidence comes from one side or the other, the disclosure is fatal to the case. No consent of the defendant can neutralize its effect. A stipulation in the most solemn form to waive the objection, would be tainted with the vice of the original contract, and void for the same reasons. Wherever the contamination reaches, it destroys. The principle to be extracted from all the cases is, that the law will not lend its support to a claim founded upon its violation. Morck v. Abel, 3 Bosanquet & Puller, 35; Armstrong v. Toler, 11 Wheat. 258 [ 6 L. Ed. 468 ]; Collins v. Blantern, 1 Smith’s Leading Cases, 630, and notes.””

   19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McMullen v. Hoffman · Carter-Crume Co. v. Peurrung