Goddard v. Pollock’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2018
12 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 Reher v. Reed · Buck v. Morrossis · 11 Cal. App. 3d 642 - A & B METAL PRODUCTS v. MacArthur Properties, Inc. · 176 Cal. App. 2d 67 - W. A. Rose Co. v. Municipal Court for Oakland-Piedmont Judicial District · 258 Cal. App. 2d 848 - Bristol Convalescent Hospital v. Stone
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[I]t is generally recognized that an untimely pleading is not a nullity, and it will serve to preclude the taking of default proceedings unless it is stricken.’ The proper procedure is for the plaintiff to move to strike the defendant’s untimely pleading and, if the court grants such relief, thereafter proceed to obtain the entry of the defendant’s default....””
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.