York v. Trigg’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Mackenzie v. A. Engelhard & Sons Co. (1924), Milgram v. Jiffy Equipment Co. (1952)
39 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 Hedges v. Dixon County · Deke v. Huenkemeier · Davis v. Davis · Estate of Pigeon v. Stevens · Robertson v. Robertson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No court is ever justified in invoking the maxim of equity for the purpose of destroying legal rights or of establishing rights that do not exist.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a [long-recognized] maxim of equity uniformly adhered to by the courts that `equity follows the law.'”
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.