Haskell v. Cutler’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2013
21 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 Hogan v. Bailey · Griswold Linseed Oil Co. v. Lee · Corliss v. Davidson & Case Lbr. Co. · Shuler v. Viger · Halliburton v. Illinois Life Ins. 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Tlhe approach to a consideration of the vacating of a default judgment must necessarily differ from the vacation of a judgment where the parties have had at least one opportunity to present the case on its merits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a defaulting defendant and his attorney have at all times proceeded in good faith and have exercised that degree of care and skill which reasonably prudent persons would ordinarily exercise under all the circumstances, and where ... the judgment debtor promptly and lawfully proceeds to vacate the same, the judgment will be set aside, not as an act of merey, but as the recognition of a right granted by law and which no court has the right to arbitrarily deny. In determining whether it should vacate a default judgment, the court may, and often should, go further than required under this rule, but less than this it must not do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our judicial system is based upon the fair and just theory that every party to a lawsuit is entitled to his day in court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.