Lucus v. Ruckman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 20 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘A direct attack on a judgment is an attempt to avoid or correct it in some manner provided by law and in a proceeding instituted- for that very purpose, in the same action and in the same court; ■*.. * * > »”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arthur v. Garcia · Sanders v. Estate of Sanders

2. “* * * A collateral áttack is an attempt to impeach the judgment by matters dehors the record, in an action other than that in which it was rendered; an attempt to avoid, defeat, or evade it, or deny its force and effect, in some incidental proceeding not provided by law for the express purpose of attacking it; * * *. In other words, if the action or proceeding has an independent purpose and contemplates, some other relief or result, although the overturning of the judgment may be important or even necessary to its success, then the attack upon the judgment is collateral'/”'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Arthur v. Garcia · Barela v. Lopez