Pickford v. Talbott’s Empirical Analysis
225 U.S. 651 · 1912
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), United States v. Mayer (1914)
58 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · Hendrickson v. Hinckley · Lansing v. Eddy · Taylor v. Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a judgment which ought not, in equity and good conscience, to be enforced; (2) a good defense to the alleged cause of action on which the judgment is founded; (3) fraud, accident, or mistake which prevented the defendant in the judgment from obtaining the benefit of his defense; (4) the absence of fault or negligence on the part of the defendant; and (5) the absence of any adequate remedy at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Rees““A court of equity does not interfere with judgments at law, unless the complaint has an equitable defense, of which he could not avail himself at law, because it did not amount to .a legal defense, or had a good defense at law, which he was prevented from availing himself of by fraud or accident, unmixed with negligence of himself or his agents.” 225 U. S. 651 , 32 Sup. Ct. 687, 56 L. Ed. 1240 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Hill
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.