Ex Parte Deaton’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2019
2 district · 14 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 J. C. Lysle Milling Co. v. North Alabama Grocery Co. · Burnett Bean v. Miller · Tecumseh Iron Co. v. Camp · Parker v. Olliver · Kropp v. Shamblin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Aside from the numerous cases where an accounting may be had in equity in the exercise of jurisdiction acquired on other grounds, matters of account are per se within the scope of equity jurisdiction. This equitable jurisdiction is concurrent with that of the courts of law, and no precise rule can be laid down as to the cases in which a court of equity will exercise its jurisdiction. The court reserves to itself a large discretion on the subject, and zvill take or refuse jurisdiction according to the circumstances of the particular case. The best considered authorities put equitable jurisdiction upon three grounds, viz., the complicated character of the accounts, the need of a discovery, and the existence of a fiduciary or trust relation. Tecumseh Iron Co. v. Camp, 93 Ala. 572 , 9 So. 343 ; 21 Corpus Juris 132.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Segrest v. Brown
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.