Parks v. Coyne’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Cotleur v. Danziger (1994), Whitledge v. Anderson Air Activities, Inc. (1955)
40 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 Bailey v. Taaffe · Winter v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias · Harkness v. Jarvis · Smith v. City of Sedalia · Tucker v. St. Louis Life Ins.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities in this State are unanimous that in order to justify a trial court in setting aside a judgment by default, the defendant must show (1) that he has good reason for the default, and (2) that he has a meritorious defense, and that both these things must appear so clearly as to make -it manifest that the refusal of the trial court was arbitrary. [Robyn v. Publishing Company, 127 Mo. l. c. 390, 391, 30 S. W. 130 ; and case cited; Hoffman v. Loudon, 96 Mo. App. l. c. 189, 70 S. W. 162 ; Welch v. Mastin, 98, Mo. App. l. c. 277, 71 S. W. 109 ; Plart v. Handlin, 43 Mo. l. c. 171; Florez v. Uhrig’s Adm’r., 35 Mo. l. c. 519.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Munroe v. Dougherty
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.