Nichols v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Cross v. Gould (1908), Lieber v. Lieber (1911)
2 district · 30 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 · Mandeville v. . Reynolds · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Speck · Little v. Harrington · Mateer v. Missouri Pacific Railway 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order that a judgment may be set aside upon the ground of its having been obtained by fraud, it must appear that the judgment was concocted in fraud; that fraud was practiced in the very act of obtaining judgment. The fraud in such case must be actual fraud, as contradistinguished from a judgment obtained on false evidence, or a forged instrument on the trial.””
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.