Young v. Ashley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We think the principle has been fully settled that the maxim that ‘he who seeks equity must do equity’ does not apply to a suit to protect the homestead where there is no valid contract. The fact that the husband may have received money for this worthless paper does not prevent him from protecting the homestead. ... It would be a vain and useless thing to require the wife’s signature to a conveyance of the homestead if the husband can by his sole contract preclude himself and his wife from resorting to equity to protect it. Against many persons injunction will be the only effectual relief for the protection of the homestead. The maxim that ‘he who seeks equity must do equity’ was not designed to overturn the beneficient public policy of the homestead law or to overturn the settled policy of legislative enactments in the furtherance of public welfare.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson v. Dyess