Gregory v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a trial court has knowledge that one of the parties to a suit does not consent to a judgment agreed to by his attorney, the trial court should refuse to give the agreement the sanction of the court so as to make it the judgment of the court. Any judgment rendered on the agreement under such circumstances will be set aside. The same reasons which impel the setting aside of a consent judgment rendered by the court with knowledge that a party does not consent thereto will, in the interest of justice, also impel the setting aside of a consent judgment rendered when the court is in possession of information which is reasonably calculated to prompt the court to make further inquiry into the party’s consent thereto, which inquiry, if reasonably pursued, would disclose the want of consent ... “We think the information in the possession of the court was clearly sufficient and of such a nature as to put the court on notice that plaintiffs consent to the judgment rendered on March 23rd might be wanting and to require the court to make further inquiry before rendering judgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Blessen H.

2. “neither the appellant's attorneys, the attorneys for the appellee, the trial judge, nor any of the other parties to the suit, knew of the conditional nature of his consent until several months after the judgment was rendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gregory v. Drury