Stevens v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2009
5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Co of California v. United States · McBride v. McBride · 350 So. 2d 466 - Ohio Cas. Group v. Parrish · Hopkinson v. State · Murphy v. Stevens
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.
“Where fraud [or] misrepresentation is relied upon as a ground for relief sought pursuant to a Rule 60(b) motion, it must be proved by clear and convincing evidence. Fraud is never presumed, and the burden of proof to clearly establish such fraud or misrepresentation is upon the party seeking relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellant feels the result of the trial was wrong. Unsuccessful litigants often harbor these feelings. On this motion, appellant attempts to retry the case, relitigate the controversy, and asks the court to set aside its judgment and determine the controversy in his favor. In this effort appellant must fail, for he has not established fraud by clear and convincing evidence. Here appellant presents nothing new.... [T]he granting of such relief generally depends upon the occurrence of later events or requires a showing of something that was unknown or not before the court originally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.