Publicker v. Shallcross’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 949 · 1939
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Shammas v. Shammas (1952)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Marshall v. Holmes · Bronson v. Schulten · Phillips v. Negley · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe truth is more important than the trouble it takes to get it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * It is to be noted, however, that before relief is granted on the ground of perjury, it is required that the plaintiff have a meritorious defense and that he clearly establish the perjury. Consequences are not always conclusive against a rule of positive law; and here the equity of the case is clear. "It is said that the refusal to enjoin the enforcement of judgments on the ground of perjury is a necessary choice between the evils of injustice in individual cases and the encouragement of vexatious litigation. But a party seeking redress is required to exhaust first his legal remedies, to be free from fault, and clearly to establish the perjury without which judgment would not have gone against him. It is submitted that with these safeguards against undue litigation the lesser evil is to follow the equity of the matter.”
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.