Gee v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 8 Cal. 4th 450 - People v. Freeman · 61 Cal. 4th 830 - Even Zohar Construction & Remodeling, Inc. v. Bellaire Townhouses, LLC · 28 Cal. App. 4th 613 - Johnson v. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc. · 89 Cal. App. 4th 603 - Leader v. Health Industries of America, Inc. · 41 Cal. 4th 668 - People v. Alice
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall, whenever an application for relief is made no more than six months after entry of judgment, is in proper form, and is accompanied by an attorney's sworn affidavit attesting to his or her mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or neglect, vacate any (1) resulting default entered by the clerk against his or her client, and which will result in entry of a default judgment, or (2) resulting default judgment or dismissal entered against his or her client, unless the court finds that the default or dismissal was not in fact caused by the attorney's mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'The range of attorney conduct for which relief can be granted in the mandatory provision is broader than that in the discretionary provision, and includes inexcusable neglect.' [Citation.] The purposes of the mandatory relief provision is to promote the determination of actions on their merits, to relieve innocent clients of the burden of the attorneys' fault, to impose the burden on the erring attorney, and to avoid the precipitation of additional litigation in the form of malpractice suits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'that it is illogical and arbitrary to allow mandatory relief for defendants when a default judgment has been entered against them due to defense counsel's mistakes and to not provide comparable relief to plaintiffs whose cases are dismissed for the same reason.' " ' [Citation.] ... 'By inserting the word "dismissal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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