Ex parte Russell’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions

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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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “That the said court of claims, at any time while any suit or any claim is pending before or on appeal from said court, or within two years next after the final disposition of any such suit or claim, may, on motion, on behalf of the United States, grant a new trial in any such suit or claim, and stay the payment of any judgment therein, upon such evidence ... as shall reasonably satisfy said court that any fraud, wrong or injustice in the premises has been done to the United States____”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 632 F. Supp. 295 - Western Line Consolidated School District v. Continental Casualty Co.

2. “The Court of Claims, at any time while any claim is pending before it, or on appeal from it, or- within two years next after the final disposition of such claim, may, on motion on behalf of the United States, grant a new trial, and stay the payment of any judgment therein upon such evidence, cumulative or otherwise, as shall satisfy the court’that any fraud, wrong, or injustice in the premises has been done to the‘United States.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Young v. United States

3. “a new case must be made, — a case involving fraud or other wrong practised upon the government; It is analogous to' the case of a bill of review in chancery to set aside a former, decree or’a bill impeaching a decree for' fraud.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Young v. United States