Meinert v. Harder’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1950
7 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 Morrill v. Morrill · Baltimore & Ohio & Chicago Railroad v. North · Bankers Life Insurance v. Robbins · King v. Portland · Kleyla v. Haskett
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The rule in equity in this class of cases is announced by the Supreme Court of Nebraska in Bankers’ Life Ins. Co. v. Robbins, 53 Neb. 44 ( 73 N. W. 269 ), as follows: ‘A party against whom a judgment has been rendered by default, which judgment is void for want of jurisdiction over the person of the defendant, is not entitled to an injunction to restrain the enforcement of such judgment, unless it appears both from his pleadings and proof (1) that he has a meritorious defense to the cause of action on which the judgment is based * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. HICKEY
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.