Magniac v. Thomson’s Empirical Analysis
56 U.S. 281 · 1853
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Hedges v. Dixon County (1893), Official Committee of Unsecureds of Cybergenics Corporation Cybergenics Corporation v. Chinery L&s Lp
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Forster v. Fuller · Jesse Snead v. Julia McCoull · King v. Goodwin · Williams v. State
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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 sequiter legem is strictly applicable.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]y suing out a capias ad satisfaciendum [1] upon their judgment, and by taking into actual custody the body of the [debtor] under this process, ... [creditors] had obtained that complete and highest satisfaction of their demand, of which they could be deprived only by the act of God, by operation of law, or by their own voluntary acknowledgment, or by a release of their debtor....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allison“To permit ... an ignorance of the law to be alleged as the foundation of rights, or in excuse of omission of duty, or for the privation of rights in others, would lead to the most serious mischief, and would disturb the entire fabric of the social order.”
1 later decision 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.