Pearson v. Lloyd’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1954
15 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 Crawford v. McDonald · Templeton v. Ferguson · Williams v. Steele · William Carlisle & Co. v. King · Odle v. Frost, Barry & Lee
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A direct attack on a judgment is an attempt to amend, correct, reform, vacate, or enjoin the execution of same, in a proceeding instituted for that purpose, such as a motion for a rehearing, an appeal, some form of writ of error, a bill of review, an injunction to restrain its execution,’ etc. “ ‘A collateral attack on a judgment is an atteinpt to avoid its binding force in a proceeding not instituted for one of the purpose» aforesaid, as where, in an action of debt on a judgment, defendant attempts to deny the fact of indebtedness; or where, in a suit to try title to property, a judgment is offered as a link in the chain of title, and the adverse party attempts to avoid its effect,’ etc.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borders v. Highsmith
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.