Berger v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2010
6 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 Gillentine v. McLeod
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment dismissing an action shall be rendered upon application of any party, when the plaintiff fails to appear on the day set for trial. In such case the court shall determine whether the judgment of dismissal shall be with or without prejudice.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““We note that the instant case does not fall within the literal wording of the above quoted article, which provides that the judgment ‘shall’ be rendered upon application of any party ‘when the plaintiff fails to appear on the date set for trial.’ Here plaintiff did not fail to appear for trial; he was represented by counsel who was present in court and, appearance by a party being either personally or through his counsel of record, plaintiff did make an appearance. LSA-C.C.P. Arts. 7 and 1672, comment (g).””
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.