Treglia v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 district · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523 · 11 U.S.C. § 727 · 28 U.S.C. § 158 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Grogan v. Garner · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · In the Matter of Terry Gober Terry Gober v. Terra + Corporation · Bush v. Balfour Beatty Bahamas, Ltd. · Martin v. Ring
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant appears in a civil action, files a motion seeking interlocutory relief, obtains that relief, but does not thereafter answer or defend; and when, after a damage hearing (in which the defendant does not participate), default judgment enters; does Massachusetts law preclude the defendant's litigation of the substantive elements underlying the default judgment in a subsequent action initiated by the same plaintiffs?”
2 later decisions 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.