Gough v. . Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1959
6 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.
“* * * it has been held with us in numerous decisions that, in order to (obtain) such relief in case of judgments voidable for irregularity it is incumbent on defendant that he should move with reasonable promptness and make a reasonably probable show of merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Voncannon
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.