Cassady v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Parker v. Sims (1932), Alexander v. Alexander (1950)
5 federal appellate · 57 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 Bank of Pine Bluff v. Levi · McCarter v. Neil · Pattison v. Smith
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But these allegations were not sufficient to constitute a fraud practiced by the successful party in obtaining the judgment. The allegation in the complaint, in the suit to condemn, that the owner was unknown was sufficient to give the court jurisdiction to proceed against the property. It was not a fraud on the court to make this allegation, although it was untrue; for the court had the'power to inquire into its jurisdiction and to determine whether or not it was true. The recitals of the decree condemning the lot in controversy to he sold were, in effect, that the owners of the lots were designated as unknown, and that they were unknown to the board of improvement. We must presume, in the face of these allegations, that the court did make inquiry as to its jurisdiction to proceed against the property, and found that it had jurisdiction. In other words, that the complaint alleged that the owners of the lots were unknown, and that such was the'fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The' primary purpose of the suit was to quiet title, by having the deed held by ap-pellee Norris canceled and set aside. It is a proceeding, not in the original suit in any direct manner to have the judgment vacated and set aside, but is merely an independent proceeding, having as its direct purpose the quieting of the title of appellant by setting aside the-deed of appellee Norris. This is the proper characterization of the suit, and it constitutes only a collateral attack upon the judgment of the chancery court under which the land in controversy was condemned and sold.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.