Jackson v. Beech’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 831 · 1980
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 181 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 312 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Traguth v. Zuck (1983), Invst Financial Group, Inc. v. Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. (1987)
40 federal appellate · 181 district · 10 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 Wilko v. Swan · H. F. Livermore Corp. v. Aktiengesellschaft Gebruder Loepfe · Keegel v. Key West & Caribbean Trading Co. · Harper Sibley, Jr., Cross v. Tandy Corporation, Tandy Corporation, Cross
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 312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the adversary process has been halted because of an essentially unresponsive party.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong policies favoring the resolution of genuine disputes on their merits,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the default was willful, (2) a set-aside would prejudice plaintiff, and (3) the alleged defense was meritorious.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.