Yerkes v. Dangle’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1983
8 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 Miles v. Layton · Anaconda Mining Co. v. Saile · Brown v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore R. · Baugh & Sons Co. v. Crowell Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a judgment by default will be opened if it is due to the inaccuracy of information given by, or reliance on statements of, such officials, such as a judge or the clerk of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant contends, however, that there was a lack of reasonable diligence on the part of the defendant, because he relied upon the `misinformation he claims to have received from the Prothonotary's office', instead of the letter of September 2, 1942 (from opposing counsel). The letter was amply sufficient to put a careful and prudent man upon inquiry, but when the other circumstances of the case are considered, I do not think that it can properly be said that the default occurred by reason of absence of, or such a lack of, care by the defendant as to amount to gross carelessness. The application for relief was made promptly, and the facts as averred by the defendant, if true, constitute a just and legal defense to the plaintiff's claim. The ultimate aim of litigation is the speedy determination of causes according to their real merits. In this case I think that substantial justice between the parties can best be accomplished, and without delay to the plaintiff, by granting the defendant's application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spriggs v. Goodrich
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.