MacKay v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2025
22 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 Simmons v. California Institute of Technology · 20 Cal. 2d 640 - Moss v. Moss · 39 Cal. 2d 407 - Decter v. Stevenson Properties, Inc. · Joyce v. Tomasini · Shiver v. Liberty Building-Loan Assn.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Specific performance cannot be enforced against a party to a contract in any of the following cases: “1. If he has not received an adequate consideration for the contract;””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any event it is plain that the declaratory judgment statutes do not abrogate the ordinary rules of pleading, practice, procedure, and evidence. Even the most liberal construction that can be placed upon such statutes will not warrant the courts in granting affirmative relief by way of a declaraory judgment in the absence of pleading and proof warranting such relief.”
1 later decision 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.