Richards v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. ““Under the provisions of 12 O.S.A. § 176, the defendants against whom a judgment is rendered without service other than by publication in a newspaper may at any time within three years have said judgment reopened and be let in to defend upon complying with the terms of said section, that is, filing a full answer, giving the plaintiff notice of the application, offering to pay the costs if the court requires, and make it appear to the court that they had no actual knowledge of the pendency of the suit in time to have made their defense. Where such defendants bring themselves within the provisions of said section, the trial court has no alternative but to sustain the application and let the defendants in to defend.” (Emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tate v. Robertson