State Ex Rel. Brady v. Frenger’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The ‘Ordinances in Chancery’ of Lord Bacon stated the rule regulating bills of review, as follows: ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered or explained, being once under the great seal, but upon bill of review; and no bill of review shall be admitted, except it contain either error in law, appearing in the body of the decree without farther examination of matters of fact, or some new matter which hath arisen in time after the decree, and not any new proof which might have been used when the decree was made; nevertheless upon new proof that is come to light after the decree made, and could not possibly have been used at the time when the decree passed, a bill of review may be grounded by the special license of the court, and not otherwise.’ Spedding, Ellis & Heath’s ed. of Bacon’s Work, Vol. 15, p. 351.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Quintana v. Vigil