Broome v. Broome’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2017
13 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 Knox v. Remick · Productora E Importadora De Papel v. Fleming · Opinion of the Justices to the Governor · 29 Mass. App. Ct. 116 - Krupp v. Gulf Oil Corp. · Hills v. Shearer
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For good cause shown the court may set aside an entry of default and, if a judgment has been entered, may likewise set it aside in accordance with Rule 60(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the entry of a final judgment of default constitute[d] an abuse of discretion, whether reviewed under the rule 55(c) or the rule 60(b) standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may have implicated the 'good cause' standard of Mass.R.Civ.P. 55(c).”
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.