Overton v. Blum’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Baker v. Goldsmith (1979), Petro-Chemical Transport, Inc. v. Carroll (1974)
60 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.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not to be questioned' that when a judgment has been obtained by fraud, mistake, or accident, and without any want of proper diligence on the part of the party against whom it is rendered, the district court, in the exercise of its equitable powers, may grant relief by reexamining the case on its merits, and granting such relief as equity and justice may demand and require.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peters v. Pursley
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.