Lewis v. The Honorable A. Sherman Christenson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1977
8 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 United States v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · Lewis, Roca, Scoville & Beauchamp, a Partnership v. Inland Empire Insurance Company
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition for default judgment or order requiring responsive pleading filed by the Continental Bank & Trust Company, receiver for Inland Empire Insurance Company in the above proceeding came on regularly for hearing before the Court on the 9th day of February, 1959 at the hour of 9:30 a. m. and was thereafter continued for hearing to the hour of 2:00 p. m. on the 12th day of February, 1959. The court having heard the arguments of counsel and having considered the matter, and it appearing to the court that the law firm of Lewis, Roca, Scoville & Beau-champ of Phoenix, Arizona on or about the 18th day of June, 1956 filed a general claim with the receiver of Inland Empire Insurance Company and it further appearing that on or about the 22 day of October, 1958 Continental Bank & Trust Company as receiver of Inland Empire Insurance Company filed a document entitled Petition for Judgment against the said Lewis, Roca, Sco-ville & Beauchamp, which petition for judgment was in effect a counterclaim; and it further appearing to the court that the said law partnership of Lewis, Roca, Scoville & Beau-champ has not made an answer or other responsive pleading to said petition for judgment, but it further appearing to the court that it would not be in the interest of justice and equity to enter the default at the present time without further notice to said partnership but that the said Lewis, Roca, Scoville & Beauchamp should be afforded a further opportunity to answer or otherwise plead”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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