Burson v. Burson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““R.C.P. Colo. 54(c) requires that a ‘judgment by default shall not be different in kind from or exceed in amount that prayed for in the demand for judgment.’ R.C.P. Colo. 60(b) permits the court to relieve a party from a final judgment or order for ‘mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect.’ Any right to modify the original judgment in the light of the allegations contained in the motion would arise from this portion of Rule 60. But such relief must be sought ‘not more than 6 months after the judgment.’ R.C.P. Colo. 60. “ (2, 3) In the first instance relief was properly limited to that asked for in the complaint, since the husband failed to appear in the action. In the second, if Mrs. Bur-son was entitled to any modification of the judgment to the extent that alimony should be awarded her (a matter we need not decide), her motion to that end was filed too late. (Emphasis supplied.)””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Department of Welfare v. Schneider