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Priority between equitable claimants

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 11 U.S. 2 - Fitzsimmons Others v. Ogden Others · 1812Most cited · 13 citing opinions

The well known principle which governs a Court of Chancery, that between merely equitable claimants, each having equal equity with the other, he who hath the precedency in time, has the advantage in right.

How often courts cite the case defining “Priority between equitable claimants”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Priority between equitable claimants” — 13 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.