Hier v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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

1. ““This court has decided in Colson v. Leitch, 110 Ill. 504 , that ‘ a court of equity will not enjoin a judgment at law where there has been no service, unless it is alleged and proved that, if the relief be granted, a different result will be obtained than that already adjudged by the void judgment.’ Such relief will not be granted if it appears, as it does appear in the case at bar, that the debtor owes the amount of the judgment, and has no defense, either legal or equitable, to the debt for which the judgment is rendered. The same doctrine is announced by Freeman, in his work on Judgments (Sec. 498), where it is said: ‘ The better established rule undoubtedly is, that notwithstanding an alleged want of service of process a court of equity will not interfere to set aside a judgment until it appears that the result will be other»or different from that already reached.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Berg v. Commercial National Bank