O'BRIEN v. Appling’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Calvert Bay Area Factors Division of Dimmitt Owens Financial Inc v. Calvert (1997), 7 Cal. App. 4th 1375 - Four Star Electric, Inc. v. F & H CONSTRUCTION (1992)
20 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 Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. King Land & Improvement Co. · Fitzgerald v. Herzer · 19 Cal. 2d 111 - Wilson v. Walters · Mathewson v. Naylor · Royal Indemnity Co. v. Sherman
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment by default is as conclusive as to the issues tendered by the complaint as if it had been rendered after answer filed and trial had on allegations denied by the answer. [Citations.] Such a judgment is res judicata as to all issues aptly pleaded in the complaint and defendant is estopped from denying in a subsequent action any allegations contained in the former complaint. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party who permits a default to be entered confesses the truth of all the material allegations in the complaint. A default judgment is as conclusive upon the issues tended by the complaint as if rendered after an answer is filed and a trial is held on the allegations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.