Hutton v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.2d 913 · 1966
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 434 So. 2d 1067 - Kem Search, Inc. v. Sheffield (1983), H. F. Livermore Corp. v. Aktiengesellschaft Gebruder Loepfe (1970)
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For even one who fails to contest liability on an unliquidated claim has a vital interest in the subsequent determination of damages and is entitled to be heard on that matter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Matters involving large sums should not be determined by default judgments if it can reasonably be avoided. Any doubt should be resolved in favor of the petition to set aside the judgment so that cases may be decided on their merits.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Little v. King
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.