Carmichael v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While section 103, Or. L., is remedial in its character and is intended to furnish a simple, speedy and efficient means- of relief in cases where persons are, in the true sense of the statute, victims of mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect, yet its wholesome provisions are not to be invoked so as to render judgments but temporary structures, ‘to be torn down, remodeled or rebuilt whenever the builders feel competent to improve the original workmanship or design. ’ A judgment is sometimes termed a ‘finality’ because it finally terminates the disputes and adjusts the adverse interests of litigants, and it should never be annulled except upon due consideration based upon a clear showing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peterson v. Hutton

2. “judgment, order, or other proceeding taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cook v. Cook