King v. Sigrest’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2016
15 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 467 So. 2d 657 - Bell v. City of Bay St. Louis · 501 So. 2d 377 - Guaranty Nat. Ins. Co. v. Pittman · 493 So. 2d 933 - Bryant, Inc. v. Walters · Williams v. Kilgore · 609 So. 2d 426 - Rawson v. Buta
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether the trial court has abused its discretion, we consider three factors: “whether the defendant has good cause for default ... whether the defendant in fact has a colorable defense to the merits of the claim, and ... the nature and extent of prejudice which may be suffered by the plaintiff if the default is set aside.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is a more liberal standard for setting aside a default than the standard for setting aside a default judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sound discretion imports a decision by reference to legally valid standards [and] [w]here a trial judge in determining a matter committed to his sound discretion makes his decision by reference to an erroneous view of the law, this Court has authority to take appropriate corrective action on appeal.”
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.