McDougall v. Walling’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably Nelson v. Meehan (1907), Meeker v. Waddle (1915)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 19 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 United States v. Throckmorton · Pico v. Cohn · Hass v. Billings · Stewart v. Duncan · Allen v. Currey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Perjury is not specified in our statute as a distinctive ground for vacating a judgment. There must, at any rate, be connected with it such circumstances as will relieve the opposite party from all implication of want of diligence, and deceive him completely in the nature of the testimony.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meeker v. Waddle · Burke v. Bladine““It cannot be the rule that a judgment can be attacked for fraud because in the trial the prevailing party defendant failed to voluntarily disclose the weakness of his defense, or some evidence which would tend to overthrow his defense. Ordinarily, the pleadings must determine what issues will be tried; and it has never" seemed to be the practice that .a party must disclose to his adversary what his testimony will be, or that he must suggest' testimony for his adversary.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.