Cavalier v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2001
6 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 340 So. 2d 1325 - Succession of Rock v. Allstate Life Ins. Co. · Baker Finance Co. v. Hines · 465 So. 2d 280 - City of St. Martinville v. Johnson · 411 So. 2d 758 - Hernandez v. King
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no requirement that the party confirming the default must have the testimony reduced to writing or that a note be made of the evidence introduced; when judgment has been rendered and no note of evidence has been made, it is incumbent on the party opposing the judgment to secure a narrative of the facts. Succession of Rock v. Allstate Life Ins. Co., 340 So.2d 1325 (La.1976). Here, the transcript was unavailable and no narrative of facts was provided. 'When the judgment recites, as it does here, that plaintiff has produced due proof in support of its demand and that the law and evidence favor plaintiff and are against defendant, the presumption exists that the judgment was rendered upon sufficient evidence and that it is correct.' Rock, supra, at 1329 . He who seeks to have a default judgment against him set aside must allege and prove that he had good reasons for his nonappearance and failure to timely plead. Id. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the traditional way, by presenting testimony in open court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no effect on the validity of the default judgment.”
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.