Gomes v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 1364 · 1970
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 16 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Richison v. Ernest Group, Inc. (2011), Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers Union Local No v. Superline Transportation Company Inc (1992)
81 federal appellate · 16 district · 25 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 Tozer v. Charles A. Krause Milling Co. · Sauter v. St. Michael's College · Consolidated Masonry & Fireproofing, Inc. v. Wagman Construction Corp. · James Thomas Iii v. Colorado Trust Deed Funds, Inc.
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'counterbalanced by considerations of social goals, justice and expediency, a weighing process [that] lies largely within the domain of the trial judge's discretion.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do have a good defense to the claim itself, but especially we have a good defense to any allegation of fraud.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“They hold that where two actions have been filed and plaintiff knows that counsel who appeared for the defendant in the first action also represents the same defendant in the second action where no formal appearance is made, by legal construction, there is a technical appearance under Rule 55 (b)(2) requiring notice. See, Gomes v. Williams , 420 F.2d 1364 (10th Cir. 1970); Press v. Forest Laboratories, Inc. , 45 F.R.D. 354 (S.D.N.Y. 1968).”
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.