Gooden v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1973
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Electric Plaster Co. v. Blue Rapids City Township · Garrett Biblical Institute v. Minard · Hill v. Williams · Alexander v. Clarkson · Welch v. Challen
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is settled that a litigant can not invoke the code provision for relief on the ground of ‘unavoidable casualty or misfortune preventing a defense’ where he has been manifestly negligent, guilty of laches, lacking in diligence, careless, hurried, or mistaken in the preparation of his defense, nor on account of the negligence of his attorney.” (p. 487.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kircher v. Kircher““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. For unavoidable casualty or misfortune preventing the party from prosecuting or defending.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.