17 Mass. App. Ct. 699 - Kenney v. Rust’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 22 Mass. App. Ct. 426 - Greenleaf v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (1986), Ivory v. United States (In Re Ivory) (2001)
26 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 Rollins Environmental Services, Inc. v. Superior Court · Uranium Antitrust Litigation Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. Rio Algom Limited Rtz · 9 Mass. App. Ct. 412 - Markell v. Sidney B. Pfeifer Foundation, Inc. · Foxtrap, Inc. v. Foxtrap, Inc. · Menici v. Orton Crane & Shovel Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explicit that such a disregard of [its] procedures 'shall' result in a default, and Mass.R.Civ.P. 55(c) requires that 'good cause' be shown before a party may be relieved of the default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the clerk shall enter an appropriate judgment, subject to the provisions of Rules 54(b), 54(c), 55(b)(1), 55(b)(2) (final sentence), 55(b)(4) and 55(c)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is of course a distinction between the entry of a default and a default judgment.”
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.