Bacon v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 159 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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where the unsuccessful party has been thus hindered, he is not to be refused relief on the ground that the fact on which his defense or claim in the original action depended, and by which he expects to bring about a different result in the new suit for equitable relief, was technically in issue in the original action or proceeding, or was necessarily decided by the court in that action and concluded by the original judgment beyond reach on collateral inquiry.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oregon-Washington R. & Navigation Co. v. Reid

2. ““If my said estate is worth as much as two hundred and fifty thousand dollars at my death after payment of liabilities as afqresaid, I desire that my legal representatives shall pay to the wife of my said son Frank [she being the plaintiff in the case] the sum of ten thousand dollars, and to the husband or husbands of my said daughters Ella Etta and Carrie Jennie each the sum of ten thousand dollars.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lee v. Minor

3. “a bill in equity will not lie to set aside a judgment obtained by means of perjured testimony or forged documents, introduced in evidence in support of a contested issue of fact,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 28 Cal. App. 597 - Nicholson v. Leatham