Benjamin v. Dalmo Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 849 - Weitz v. Yankosky (1966), 32 Cal. 3d 892 - Carroll v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (1982)
150 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 35 Cal. App. 2d 685 - Stub v. Harrison · Watson v. Francisco & Humboldt Bay Railroad · Waite v. Southern Pacific Co. · Savage v. Smith · Smith v. Jones
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not exceeding six months after the judgment, order or proceeding. Conway delayed 4 months and 10 days after the default and judgment were taken against him before seeking relief. At the time he sought to have the judgment and default set aside, Conway failed to set forth any reason for such delay. Absent an explanation of the delay in bringing his motion to set aside the default, the court could not excuse and set the default aside as it was not empowered to dispense with the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the provisions of section 473 of the Code of Civil Procedure are to be liberally construed and sound policy favors the determination of actions on their merits.”
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.