Hatch v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2023
18 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 First National Bank of Crosby v. Bjorgen · Schaff v. Kennelly · Fleck v. Fleck · Bjorgen v. Kinsey · Federal Land Bank of Saint Paul v. Lillehaugen
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the party against whom judgment by default is sought has appeared in the action, the party ... must be served with written notice of the application for judgment at least 8 days before the hearing on the application.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f a party against whom a judgment for affirmative relief is sought has failed to plead or otherwise appear . . . the court may direct . . . judgment by default . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goebel“The federal provision [subdivision (c)] for setting aside default was not adopted. See Rule 60(b) regarding relief from a judgment or order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Overboe v. Odegaard
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.