Kennerly v. Aro, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2013
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Foman v. Davis · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Ristaino v. Ross
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.
“Rule 55(c) [of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure], supra, is to be “ * * * liberally construed in order to provide relief from the onerous consequences of defaults * * Any doubts about whether relief should be granted should be resolved in favor of setting aside the default so that the case may be heard on the merits. * * *”
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.