Gray v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 1970 · most notably Lieber v. Lieber (1911), Maryland Steel Co. v. Marney (1900)
44 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Relationships
Relies on Crim v. Handley · Barton v. Gray · Simpson v. Hart · Miller v. Morse · Weiss v. Whittemore
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Equity will not relieve a party against a judgment at law, on the ground of its being contrary to justice, unless the defendant was ignorant of his defense pending the suit, or facts could not be received as a defense at law, dr unless, without any neglect or default on his part, he was prevented by fraud or accident, or the act of the opposite party, from availing himself of his defense.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The weight of authority is decidedly against the granting of a new trial in a court of equity to impeach the testimony of witnesses, or because a party has committed perjury, or even suborned a witness to commit perjury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““But it does not seem to me that the mere allegation that the defendant committed perjury upon the trial, and the belief of the complainant that he can 'establish such perjury upon a retrial, is such a fraud as will authorize a court of equity to interfere, after the judgment against him in a court of law has been affirmed by the highest tribunal. The establishment of such a right in the defeated party would open the way for another contest in equity in almost, if not every, suit decided at law. There is scarcely a controversy in the courts in which there is not a conflict of testimony, and there are quite often charges of false swearing, and seldom is a case tried and decided in which new evidence cannot be obtained after people suppose it to be ended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Becker v. Welch
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.