Kitchen v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “does not contemplate a bill of review strictly and technically, as known to courts of chancery, but was intended to afford a more ample remedy, and to give the defendant, who, from want of actual notice of the suit, had been deprived of the opportunity of being heard to contest the plaintiff's demand and assert his matters of defense, upon a proper application, the right to a retrial and reinvestigation of the merits of the case; and that the petition for this purpose will be deemed legally sufficient, on demurrer, if it appear by its averments that the defendant had a meritorious defense to the action,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunlap v. Wright

2. ““It is not the making of the affidavit, but the truth of it, that is, the existence in fact of the assumed condition which enables the court to acquire jurisdiction over the person of the defendant by publication.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. South Texas Development Co. v. Martwick