Gaar, Scott & Co. v. Vanhook’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1943
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under these Code provisions the defendant seeking to set aside a judgment on the ground of fraud must state in his petition sufficient grounds to authorize the vacation or modification of the judgment and the defense that he could and would have interposed to defeat the rendition of the judgment if he had not been prevented by the fraud alleged, and the averments of the petition must be supported by evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ The court may decide upon the grounds to vacate or modify a judgment before deciding upon the validity of the defense or cause of action.””
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.