Wagner v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Abraham v. Homer (1924), Tiger v. Drumright (1923)
65 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 Linderman v. Nolan · Poff v. Lockridge · Hill v. Williams · Hill v. Persinger · Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Ellis
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment rendered by a court having jurisdiction is not void on account of an amendable defect or insufficiency in the petition, and wili not be vacated for such reason upon petition filed by defendant after the term. It is sufficient that the allegations in the petition challenge a judicial inquiry.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The district court shall have power to vacate or modify its own judgments or orders, at or after the term at- which such judgment or order was made: * * * “Seventh. Eor unavoidable casualty or misfortune, preventing the party from proe-eouting or defending.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Porter
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.