Hodgson v. Applegate’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 141 N.J. Super. 437 - Sandler v. Lawn-A-Mat Chem. & Equip. Corp. (1976), Matter of Adoption of a Child of Indian Heritage (1988)
2 district · 117 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 Ackermann v. United States · Klapprott v. United States · Hill v. Hawes · Paulina Whiting v. The Bank of the United States · Central Trust Co. Of New York v. Grant Locomotive Works (Two Cases)
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect; (b) newly discovered evidence which would probably alter the judgment or order and which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under R. 4:49; (e) fraud (whether heretofore denominated, intrinsic or extrinsic) misrepresentation or other misconduct of an adverse party; (d) the judgment or order is void; (e) the judgment or order has been satisfied, released or discharged or a prior judgment or order upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated or it is no longer equitable that the judgment or order should have prospective application or (f) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment or order.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t dictates that litigation must eventually be ended and that at some point the prevailing party be allowed to rely confidently on the inviolability of his judgment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, guided by equitable principles.”
4 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.