Bailey v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis

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39 state decisions

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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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As a court of equity has inherent power to correct errors in its records whereby they fail to express the truth in regard to its proceedings, it may amend a final decree after its enrollment by inserting words which were omitted by inadvertence or mistake and which are necessary to express the court’s intention and give proper effect to the remedy intended to be given. This power was recognized by the Supreme Court of Illinois as follows: “The court may, even after the expiration of the term at which a judgment was rendered, correct or amend the entry thereof so as to make it conform to the judgment which the court actually rendered. * * * Any amendments permissible under the statute of amendments and jeofails may be proper at a subsequent term, and this applies both to judgments at law and decrees in chancery.” Moore v. Shook, 276 Ill. 47 , 114 N.E. 592, 594 . We hold that a court of equity has inherent power, upon petition or motion, to correct obvious errors in a decree or decretal order at any time, even after its enrollment....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 150 Md. App. 369 - Gress v. ACandS, Inc.