Hamm v. Hamm’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Cloyd v. Cloyd (1978), Sprung v. Negwer Materials, Inc. (1987)
35 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 JR Watkins Company v. Hubbard · Kollmeyer Ex Rel. Kollmeyer v. Willis · Fretwell v. Laffoon · Edson v. Fahy · State Ex Rel. Jones v. Reagan
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Appellant] claims that its failure to answer resulted from mistake, inadvertence, mischance, or accident. [Respondent] does not concede that [appellant’s] failure to answer proceeded from ‘accident, mistake, inadvertence, or unavoidable circumstances unmixed with neglect or inattention.’ ... whether [appellant] had a good cause or excuse for its inattention is a factual matter not fully addressed in the proceedings before the trial court. Further proceedings are required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Surprise,’ as used in relation to the granting of a new trial or in applying for equitable relief against judgments, refers to ‘such unforeseen events, misfortunes, losses, acts or omissions, as are not the result of any negligence or misconduct in the party’ * * * or ‘an unforeseen disappointment in some reasonable expectation against which ordinary prudence would not have afforded protection.’ * * * ” (Emphasis the court’s in Hamm)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the court may award a new trial of any issue upon good cause shown and in any case where there has been * * surprise of a party or his attorney”
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.