64 Cal. App. 2d 672 - Eddy v. Eddy’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1963
22 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 Parker v. Parker · Cohen v. Cohen · Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Welch · Darsie v. Darsie · Staacke v. Bell
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statutes are very specific in their requirements for a judgment following a default. 'The relief granted to the plaintiff, if there be no answer, cannot exceed, that which he shall have demanded in his complaint; but in any other case, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the complaint and embraced within the issue.' [Emphasis added.] (Code Civ. Proc., 580.) In cases where no answer has been filed and a default has been entered, but the clerk may not enter a default judgment, the plaintiff may apply to the court 'for the relief demanded in the complaint' and after evidence is heard, the court may render a default judgment 'for such sum (not exceeding the amount stated in the complaint), as appears by such evidence to be just.' [Emphasis added.] (Code Civ. Proc., 585, subd. 2.) Manifestly 'demanded' means claimed, asserted a right to or prayed for. ...”
2 later decisions 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.