McEwen v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 374 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 383 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Travelers Insurance Co. v. Joachim (2010), Baker v. Goldsmith (1979)
5 federal appellate · 374 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.
Relationships
Relies on McCauley v. Consolidated Underwriters · Phil. H. Pierce Co. v. Watkins · Flynt v. City of Kingsville · Freeman v. Freeman · Bridgman v. Moore
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 383 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Only if a court had no jurisdictional power to render the judgment should a negligent defendant or one with no meritorious defense to the suit be able to relieve himself of the burdens and consequences of a default judgment.””
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“` After the expiration of thirty (30) days from the date the judgment is rendered or motion for new trial overruled, the judgment cannot be set aside except by bill of review for sufficient cause, filed within the time allowed by law.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In a bill of review proceeding the plaintiff must allege and prove that he was not negligent in suffering the default judgment to be rendered against him and that he has a meritorious defense to the suit. Our decisions require that the two issues be tried together so that the court may render a new final judgment. (Citing cases).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.