Beard v. Burts’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 434 · 1877
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Willamette Iron Bridge Co. v. Hatch (1888), Carfer v. Caldwell (1906)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Beard, the Court explained: To sustain a bill of review, there must be errors of law apparent on the face of the decree, or some new matters of fact material in themselves, and discovered after the rendition of the decree. This is the general rule in equity.... The facts are not open for a re-trial, unless the bill asserts that new evidence has been discovered, not obtainable before the first trial by the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hyatt v. Kappos
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.