Arrowsmith v. Gleason’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

95 federal appellate · 26 district · 14 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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The court does not act as a court of review, nor does it inquire into any irregularities or errors of proceeding in another court, but it will scrutinize the conduct of the parties, and, if it finds that they have been guilty of fraud in obtaining a judgment or decree, it will deprive them of the benefit of it, and of any inequitable advantage which they have derived under it.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marshall v. Holmes · Daniels v. Benedict

2. ““If by tbis is meant only that tbe Circuit Court cannot by its orders act directly upon tbe probate court, or that tbe Circuit Court cannot compel or require tbe probate court to set aside or vacate its own orders, tbe position of tbe defendants could not be disputed; but it does not follow that tbe right of Harmening in bis lifetime or of bis heirs since bis death, to bold these lands as against tbe plaintiff, cannot be questioned in a court of general equitable jurisdiction upon tbe ground of fraud. If tbe case made by the bill is clearly established by proof, it may be assumed that some state court, of superior jurisdiction and equity powers, and having before it all tbe parties interested, might afford tbe plaintiff relief of a substantial character. But whether that be so or not, it is difficult to perceive why tbeCircuit Court is not bound to give relief according to tbe recognized rules of equity, as administered in tbe courts of tbe United States. * * * ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davenport v. Moore · Diamond v. Connolly

3. ““ These principles control the present case, which, although involving rights arising under judicial proceedings in another jurisdiction, is an original, independent suit for equitable relief between the parties; such relief being grounded upon a new state of facts, disclosing not only imposition upon a court of justice, in procuring from it authority to sell an infant's lands when there was no necessity therefor, but actual fraud in the exercise from time to time of the authority so obtained. As this case is within the equity jurisdiction of the circuit court, as defined by the constitution and laws of the United States, that court may, by its decree, lay hold of the parties, and compel them to do what, according to the principles of equity, they ought to do, thereby securing and establishing the rights of which the plaintiff is alleged to have been deprived by fraud and collusion.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marshall v. Holmes · De Forest v. Thompson