Zisler v. Ayan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Community National Bank v. Dawes · 7 Mass. App. Ct. 426 - Berube v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co. · Murphy v. Administrator of the Division of Personnel Administration · Cullen Enterprises, Inc. v. Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Ass'n · Scannell v. Ed. Ferreirinha & Irmao, Lda.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the failure to demonstrate a meritorious defense ordinarily justifies a refusal to vacate judgment, [citations omitted], the converse is not true.... [A] party is not entitled to Rule 60(b) (1) relief solely on the basis of the existence of a meritorious defense. Nor is there a right to such relief even in those instances in which the moving party has clearly satisfied all of the factors set forth in Berube [v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co., 7 Mass. App. Ct. 426 (1979)] as a guide for the court’s exercise of its discretion, [citations omitted] The allowance or denial of a Rule 60(b) (1) motion remains within the discretion of the trial judge.”
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.