Hensley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “So while we agree with the appellants that the granting of a default judgment on the issue of liability is not a matter of discretion where no answer or other pleading is timely filed, this does not mean that the trial court was in error in this case. If the appellee’s allegation with regard to the mailing of his answer were believed, then the failure of the post office to deliver the letters would constitute excusable neglect, unavoidable casualty, or other just cause. The record does not show why the court denied the appellants’ motion for default but it is their burden to demonstrate that the court was in error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Coleman