Parsons v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1969
5 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 Bronson v. Schulten · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Henry K William · White v. Gove · Brooks v. Railway Co. · Brooks v. Railroad Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From the foregoing authorities, as well as from the nature of judicial proceedings, it must be held to be established as a general and necessary rule of equity procedure governing this court, that a decree once deliberately formulated, signed, entered, and filed, cannot afterward be summarily revoked or vacated on motion for alleged mistakes of a party or even of the court; but that relief from such mistakes must be sought for through the more deliberate procedure provided for review, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In Whitehouse Eq. Pr., section 526, it is laid down that in this State ‘after a final decree has been signed, filed and entered errors involving the merits of the case cannot be corrected by rehearing on motion or petition, the only remedy being by bill of review or the statutory petition for review.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Semo v. Goudreau
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.