Edwards v. Hellings’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1945
15 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 Trenouth v. Farrington · Franklin v. Merida
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 provision that the clerk must enter the judgment ‘immediately’ after entering his default is merely directory. His failure to do so may render him liable to an action by the judgment creditor, but does not render void the judgment subsequently entered upon such default; nor can the defendant against whom the judgment is entered invoke such failure for the purpose of annulling a judgment to which he has no other defense. The statute of limitations upon the judgment runs from the time of its entry, and not from its rendition. Trenouth v. Farrington, 54 Cal. 273 . See, also, Franklin v. Merida, 50 Cal. 289 . If the appellant had desired to set the statute of limitations running, he could himself have caused the judgment to be entered at any time after its rendition. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahn v. Schmitz
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.