1 Ariz. App. 165 - Bates v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Dressler v. Morrison (2006), Veach v. City of Phoenix (1967)
2 district · 28 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Tube City Mining & Milling Co. v. Otterson · Dockery v. Central Arizona Light & Power Co. · MacRae v. MacRae · Godfrey v. Godfrey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means some intentional act or conduct by which the prevailing party has prevented the unsuccessful party from having a fair submission of the controversy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mr. G v. Mrs. G · Arnold v. Arnold“Fraud on the court is a variety of extrinsic fraud. The doctrine may allow relief when, by fraud, a party has prevented a real contest before the court of the subject matter of the suit, or, put differently, has committed some intentional act or conduct ... [that] has prevented the unsuccessful party from having a fair submission of the controversy. The court has the power to set aside a judgment [w]hen a party obtains a judgment by concealing material facts and suppressing the truth with the intent to mislead the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alvarado v. Thomson“the concealment of material facts may form the basis of an action in equity for extrinsic fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mr. G v. Mrs. G
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.