Sanders v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2017
12 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Kirtland v. Fort Morgan Auth. Sewer Serv., Inc. · Horton ex rel. Wiginton v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad · 524 So. 2d 610 - Jones v. Hydro-Wave of Alabama, Inc. · 456 So. 2d 67 - Hall v. Thomas · 533 So. 2d 185 - Lee v. Martin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]easonable explanations for defaults, such as attorney neglect and liability insurance company neglect attributable to innocent inadvertence, militate in favor of a finding of an absence of culpability and provide a basis for setting aside a default judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]he [ALSLA] did not change the case law involving a plaintiffs burden of proof in a legal service liability action based on an allegation of negligence in handling an underlying action. As in legal malpractice actions that arose pri- or to the effective date of the [ALSLA] (April 12, 1988), a plaintiff must introduce evidence (that would be sufficient to withstand a motion for summary judgment or a motion for a [judgment as a matter of law]) that in the absence of the alleged negligence, the outcome of the underlying case would have been different.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although Rule 55(c), [Ala.] R. Civ. P., vests the trial court with discretion in ruling on a Rule 55(c) motion, Article I, §§ 6, 10, and 13, of the Alabama Constitution of 1901 requires that a trial court exhibit a large and liberal discontent against adjudication of rights by default.”
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.