Hackney v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1960 · most notably Groover v. Darden (1953), Hays v. McCarty (1940)
35 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 Georgia Cotton Co. v. Lee · Oden v. King · Wood v. Estes · Hayes v. Betts · Ellis v. Vandergrift
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A creditor’s bill for discovery which alleges as a fact the existence of property owned by the debtor, that it is concealed and hidden from the creditors, and that it can be discovered and subjected to the payment of the demands of creditors only by the aid of a court of equity alone, is sufficient in averment, in these particulars, to call into exercise the enlarged jurisdiction of a court of equity, conferred upon it by section 7343 of the Code of 1923 (now section 898, Title 7, Code of 1940), though it does not state the nature or location of the property. Pollak v. Billing, 131 Ala. 519 , 32 So. 639 ; Elliott et al. v. Kyle, 176 Ala. 167 , 57 So. 752 .” See, also, Hays v. McCarty, 239 Ala. 400 , 195 So. 241 .”
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.