Wright v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1961 · most notably 28 Cal. App. 597 - Nicholson v. Leatham (1915), 1 Ill. 2d 293 - Petta v. Host (1953)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Benjamin Harris v. William Hardeman · Gerald v. City of Boston · McNulta v. Lockridge · Colson v. Leitch · Anderson Crenshaw
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon proof of fraud or collusion in the procurement of a judgment, such judgment may be vacated at any time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glenn v. Mitchell
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.