Mayer v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 18 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. ““There is some conflict in the decisions as to whether statutes similar to this are mandatory, so as to entitle a defendant who brings himself within their provisions to appear and defend as a matter of right, or whether the application is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and will be interfered with by an appellate court only in cases of an abuse of discretion. The former rule seems to prevail in Wisconsin (Berry v. Nelson, 4 Wis. 375 ; Pier v. Millerd, 63 Wis. 33 ( 22 N. W. 759 ), while the courts of Minnesota take the latter view (Washburn v. Sharpe, 15 Minn. 63 [ Gil. 43 ]; Frankoviz v. Smith, 35 Minn. 278 ( 28 N. W. 508 ). But we do not think the application in the case is sufficient under either view. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Felts v. Boyer

2. ““The general statement that defendant has a good and valid defense to the suit is insufficient; the facts constituting such defense should have been set forth, so that the court could have determined whether they were sufficient for that purpose, and the proper practice is to accompany the motion with the answer which the party desires to file, which was not done in this case”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnston v. Braymill White Pine Co.