Robert C. Thorpe v. Bessie P. Thorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably H. F. Livermore Corp. v. Aktiengesellschaft Gebruder Loepfe (1970), Keegel v. Key West & Caribbean Trading Co. (1980)
44 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Oliphant v. Atlantic Coast Line R. · Bridoux v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Sara Patapoff v. Vollstedt's Inc., a Corporation, Crown Mills, a Corporation and Pacific Supply Co-Operative, a Corporation
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The philosophy of modern federal procedure favors trials on the merits, and default judgments should generally be set aside where the moving party acts with reasonable promptness, alleges a meritorious defense to the action, and where the default has not been willful.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n some cases, it may also be appropriate for the defendant to be required to post bond to secure the amount of the default judgment pending a trial on the merits”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If appellant’s claim that he simply is unable to comply with the conditions imposed is true, serious questions are raised, question having an aura of denial of due process of law. See Societe Internationale, etc. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197, 209-10 , 78 S.Ct. 1087 , 2 L.Ed.2d 1255 (1958), where the Supreme Court stated, in another context, that imposition of an “impossible” condition of a litigant’s right to a trial on the merits raises constitutional difficulties. 364 F.2d at 695 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Defoe v. Lesley
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.