Cantwell v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably Daffin v. Daffin (1978), Seven Provinces Insurance v. Commerce & Industry Insurance (1975)
26 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 Donovan v. Boeck · Hall v. First National Bank of Chelsea · Wingate v. Haywood · Murphy v. De France · Thornton v. Irwin
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.
““But the courts have a wise and natural aversion to overthrowing judgments. There must be an end to litigation in the interest of the State and for the repose of society; therefore when the help of a court of equity is asked to undo what has already been done and adjudged by a court, fraud in the cause of action itself, in false allegations or false testimony, will not suffice. . . . So, where fraud, accident, surprise or mistake is the ground for equitable .relief against a judgment, plaintiff must come into court with a cause unmixed with his own negligence or fault; for ‘ ‘ no man is entitled to the aid of a court of equity, when that aid becomes necessary by his own fault. ’ 1 ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.