Tam Ly Lam’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.3d 1309 · 1999
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably in Re: Stephen McDonald (2000), Ronald Bartee Ronald Bartee v. Tara Colony Homeowners Association Daniel E O'Connell
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Nobelman v. American Savings Bank · State Bank of India v. Chalasani · Hawaii Carpenters' Trust Funds v. Stone
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal courts are not run like a casino game in which players may enter and exit on pure whim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must first file an appropriate motion in the court where the default was entered.”
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.