Herlihy v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1984
17 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 Russell v. Foley · Golchin v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Conrad v. Mazman · Judd v. Gray · Town of Hopkinton v. B. F. Sturtevant Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The granting of such a petition “is addressed largely although not exclusively to the sound discretion of the court.” [Citation omitted.] We have no doubt that it is within the discretion of the court to vacate a judgment which has been brought about as the result of an abnormal mental condition of the party against whom it was rendered and who was not represented by a guardian or a guardian ad litem. It would seem that a misfortune of this kind belongs within the class for which the statute was designed to furnish relief. Herlihy v. Kane, supra, 38 N.E.2d at 622 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zundel v. Zundel
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.