Burns v. Madden’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Allen v. Kizer (1987), Cammack v. Chalmers (1984)
32 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 Walden v. Metzler · Allied Chemical Corp. v. Van Buren School District No. 42 · Winters v. Lewis · Pyle v. Amsler · Moore v. Robertson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is within the sound discretion of the trial court to grant or deny a motion to set aside a default judgment, and the question on appeal is whether there has been an abuse of that discretion. Default judgments are not favorites of the law and should be avoided when possible. (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cammack v. Chalmers
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.