Deen v. Deen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. “The Rosser case modified the [Hagedorn ] rule to the extent that where an officer of the court gives wrong information which prevents the filing of a motion for new trial by the losing party, the movant in a bill of review is excused from complying with requirement (2) above [that the defendant was prevented from making his meritorious defense by fraud, accident or wrongful act of the opposite party], Otherwise, the rule of Hagedorn was approved (emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Northcutt v. Jarrett