In Re: John W. Catt, Ii. Appeal Of: Shirley and Gerald Hash’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably e360 Insight v. Spamhaus Project (2007), Reeves v. Davis (2011)
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Standefer v. United States · United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Even when a default judgment is warranted based on a party's failure to defend, the allegations in the complaint with respect to the amount of damages are not deemed true. The district court must instead conduct an inquiry in order to ascertain the amount of damages with reasonable certainty.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significant minority of states ... allowing findings made in default proceedings to collaterally estop, provided that the defaulted party could have appeared and defended if he had wanted to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once the default is established, and thus liability, the plaintiff still must establish his entitlement to the relief he seeks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.