Fleming v. Baptist General Convention’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Badillo v. Mid Century Insurance Co. (2005), St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Getty Oil Co. (1989)
5 federal appellate · 34 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 Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Santoni v. United States · Clements v. Fashing · Hodel v. Indiana · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a general rule[,] equity follows the law and where a party's rights are defined by statute, equity is without authority to modify or unsettle those rights. As stated early on, in this jurisdiction, no court is ever justified in invoking the maxim of equity for the purpose of destroying legal rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no court is ever justified in invoking the maxim of equity for the purpose of destroying legal rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all judgments of courts of record . . . shall bear interest . . . .”
2 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.