Exxon Corp. v. Thomason’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Fullwood v. Sivley (1999), 253 Ga. App. 587 - Johnson v. American National Red Cross (2002)
25 state decisions
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 Beauchamp v. Knight · Axelroad v. Preston · Peek v. Southern Guaranty Insurance · Ambassador College v. Goetzke · Blanch v. King
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not require a defendant to show that it will completely defeat plaintiff's claim; rather, the defendant must demonstrate that if relief from default is granted, the outcome of the suit may be different from the result if the default stands.”
2 later decisions 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.