Curtis v. Lakin’s Empirical Analysis
94 F. 251 · 1899
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1957
7 federal appellate ·
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 Wood v. Carpenter · Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Galliher v. Cadwell · Johnston v. Standard Mining Co. · Snow
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, “Where delay is occasioned by motives of the latter sort, — that is, by waiting to see whether developments undertaken by those in possession will be successful or otherwise, — a litigant is justly chargeable with bad faith, which courts of chancery always aim to discourage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sturm v. Wiess
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.