French v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Town of Brookfield v. Candlewood Shores Estates, Inc. (1986), Caldwell v. Barnes (1998)
63 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 McEwen v. Harrison · Clayton v. Hurt · Freeman v. Freeman · Hanks v. Rosser · Heard v. State
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although the bill of review is an equitable proceeding, before a litigant can successfully invoke it to set aside a final judgment he must allege and prove: (1) a meritorious defense to the cause of action alleged to support the judgment, (2) which he was prevented from making by the fraud, accident or wrongful act of the opposite party, (3) unmixed with any fault or negligence of his own."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a court of general jurisdiction, in the exercise of its ordinary judicial functions, renders .a judgment in a cause in which it has jurisdiction over the person of the defendant and the subject-matter of the controversy, such judgment is never void, no matter how erroneous it may appear, from the face of the record or otherwise, to be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Bowers“A bill of review is an equitable proceeding designed to prevent manifest injustice.”
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.