Ryan v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 20 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““After the judgment properly was entered, the question of whether it should or should not be vacated in whole or in part was within the sound discretion of the 1 trial court for the ensuing thirty days. The decisive point no longer was whether there existed a genuine dispute as to a material fact, but rather whether the court was satisfied that there had been shown a reasonable indication of a meritorious defense or other equitable circumstances that would justify striking the judgment—that is, whether the court entertained a reasonable doubt that justice had not been done.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hamilton v. Hamilton

2. ““We think that the asserted defense that the payments were gifts, if substantiated, would constitute a valid and meritorious defense. * * * “Since the trial court appears to have proceeded upon a contrary view of what would constitute a valid defense, we think that the denial of an opportunity to present the defense here asserted resulted in an abuse of the court’s discretion in refusing to strike out the judgment.” Id. at 73 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. JB CORPORATION v. Fowler