Micou v. Ashurst’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Hardin v. Boyd (1885), Seals v. Robinson & Co. (1883)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Doe ex dem Duval's heirs v. McLoskey · Kelly v. Payne · Erskine v. Townsend · Stephenson v. Thompson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But we concur with the chancellor that the hill is not filed for redemption, nor could a decree be founded on it that the complainant be lot in to redeem. The averments of the bill are adapted only to a decree for the cancellation of the mortgage, because the debt is founded on an illegal consideration. As a general rule, a bill may be framed in a double aspect, or in the alternative, when either of the aspects or alternatives entitles the complainant to the same relief. But we do not understand that when a bill is filed for a distinct purpose, which wholly fails, whether on the facts stated, or on the proof, that it can be converted into a bill for another purpose. Nor do we understand that a bill may aver either one or the other of two alternatives is true when they are repugnant to and inconsistent with each other, and, if the one is true, entitling the party to relief wholly distinct from and repugnant to that which would be granted if the other was true. Now, if the consideration of the mortgage debt was illegal, violative of positive law, and offensive to public policy, a court of equity would not entertain a bill for redemption, nor foreclosure. The cancellation of the mortgage, as a cloud on the title of the mortgagor, would be, perhaps, the only ground on which the court would intervene. Averring the illegality of the debt, and the consequent invalidity of the mortgage, the appellant cannot then aver that he may be mistaken in this, and affirm their validity, and cl”
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.