White v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1991
16 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 Cragin v. Lovell · Edwards Feed Mill, Inc. v. Johnson · San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Morgan · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Hennessey · Griswold v. Carlson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * (b) Consist of a statement in plain and concise language of the plaintiff’s cause of action * * *. That an allegation be evidentiary or be of legal conclusion shall not be ground for objecttion when fair notice to the opponent is given by the allegations as a whole. Rule 47 provides in part: A pleading which sets forth a claim for relief * * * shall contain (a) A short statement of the cause of action sufficient to give fair notice of the claim involved, and (b) A demand for judgment for the relief to which the party deems himself entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. Jones“The rules authorize the taking of a judgment by default. In order to support such a judgment, it is essential that the petition show a good cause of action upon which a default judgment can be entered, and the parties seeking such judgment must comply with the requirements of the rules regarding same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. Jones““The Rule is that in order to be sufficient to support a default judgment, a plaintiff’s petition must at least set forth sufficient of the facts and circumstances which constitute his cause of action as to fairly notify his adversary of the basis of his claim and of the relief which he is seeking.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Abalos
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.