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← 241 CALAPP4TH 963 - Dhawan v. Biring

Dhawan v. Biring’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 42 Cal. 3d 822 - Greenup v. Rodman · 27 Cal. 3d 489 - Becker v. S.P v. Construction Co. · 51 Cal. 3d 1160 - In Re Marriage of Lippel · 53 Cal. 3d 428 - Schwab v. Rondel Homes, Inc. · 134 Cal. App. 4th 1161 - Electronic Funds Solutions v. Murphy

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. “cannot exceed that demanded in the complaint ....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “due process requires not only actual notice of the damages being sought, but 'formal notice' "] ( Electronic Funds ); Dhawan v. Biring (2015) 241 Cal.App.4th 963 , 970, 194 Cal.Rptr.3d 515 ["The case law favors a strict interpretation of section 580's requirement that a defendant be given formal notice-in the form of an amended complaint-of the extent of liability stemming from a decision to not appear in response to a complaint.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “at odds with the remaining body of case law, including consistent language from the California Supreme Court that a default judgment rendered in violation of section 580 is void or subject to collateral attack because it is beyond the court's jurisdiction to enter such a judgment.”
    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.