Wagner v. Shank’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1948
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But this rule in terms recognizes the doctrine, which is equally well settled, that where a party is not in fault hy failing to use reasonable diligence, and is prevented from defending the action at law, by fraud or accident, or the acts of the opposite party, equity will lend its aid and give relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMillan v. Forsythe““Judgments entered up as these were are simply shams, mere attempts to create debts by the forms of law where none were ever proved to exist, or where none in fact ever existed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMillan v. Forsythe
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.