Hedges v. Dixon County’s Empirical Analysis
150 U.S. 182 · 1893
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 19 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 386 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Reno v. Catholic Social Services, Inc. (1993), Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Pangilinan (1988)
102 federal appellate · 19 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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 Lake County v. Rollins · County of Dixon v. Field · Litchfield v. Ballou · Ætna Life Insurance v. Middleport
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 386 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts of equity can no more disregard statutory and constitutional requirements and provisions than can courts of law.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]herever the rights or the situation of parties are clearly defined and established by law, equity has no power to change or unsettle those rights or that situation, but in all such instances the maxim `equitas sequitur legem' [equity follows the law] is strictly applicable.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A court of equity, in the absence of fraud, accident, or mistake, cannot change the terms of a contract.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.