Walker v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1999
15 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Pico v. Cohn · Neal v. Boykin · Davis v. Albritton · Powell v. McKinney
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a court . . . , will set aside a judgment which has been obtained by fraud, where such fraud is extraneous to the issues in the proceeding attacked, and especially where the court has been imposed upon by such fraud. The fraud must be actual and positive, and not merely constructive], i.e., committed in ignorance of the true facts]; there must be perpetration of an intentional wrong].] ... A well-established limitation of the general rule is that a judgment can not be vacated for fraud where the particular fraud was in issue in the original proceedings. This limitation on the general principle will not be modified by the fact that additional evidence may have been discovered since the trial to prove the fraud. Nor will a judgment be set aside on the ground that the prevailing party practiced a fraud on the court and on the adverse party by concealing the evidence of his fraud, where the particular fraud, evidence to establish which is alleged to have been concealed, was the issue on trial and there adjudicated.”
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.