Logsdon v. Logsdon’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Potts v. Potts (1944), Pasko v. Trela (1951)
2 federal appellate · 66 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 Baker v. Baker, Eccles & Co. · Gerald v. City of Boston · Johnson v. Carroll · Harrod v. Harrod · Ratliff v. Childers
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Without any. involved question of divorce the law is universal, as we again repeat, that no one may reap the fruits of a judgment in his favor which was obtained by the character of fraud here involved ; and if he could do so in a case the purpose of which was to destroy his marital relation resulting as it does in the breaking up of a home, then the courts in upholding such a judgment would not only acknowledge the impotence of the law to prevent such far-reaching fraudulent results, but would likewise hold 'out an incentive for the commission of perjury by a dissatisfied spcuse in order to untie himself or herself from his or her mate and extend to such spouse the hand of approval because of the law’s inefficiencies, and we do not find the law as so holding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Moran““The attacked judgment having been obtained by perjury or fraud in order to obtain the benefit of constructive process, it may be wholly vacated and set aside in a properly provided proceeding, and that such a proceeding is a suit in the same court to set it aside under subsection 4 of section-518 of the Civil Code.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crowe v. Crowe“if there is no remedy by which judgments so procured... can be impeached and annulled, courts of justice may be made instruments by which the grossest frauds may be successfully accomplished, to the great wrong and injury of innocent persons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clements v. Harris
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.