Puterman v. Puterman’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1986
12 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 Rehfuss v. Rehfuss · Parks v. Coyne · Iron Mountain Bank v. Armstrong · Harkness v. Jarvis · Dowdy v. Calvi
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Many courts in defining the words ‘abuse of discretion’ as opposed to the words ‘sound discretion’ have used substantially the language employed in the case of Detroit Fidelity & Surety Co. v. Foster, 170 S.C. 121 , 169 S.E. 871, 881 , as follows: ‘The term “abuse of discretion” does not mean any reflection upon the presiding judge, and does not carry with it an implication of conduct deserving censure, but is strictly a legal term indicating that the appellate court is of the opinion that under the circumstances the trial judge committed error of law in the exercise of his discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hartt v. Hartt“"Under the tendency of the courts to require causes of action to be tried upon the merits, judgments by default are regarded as peculiarly within the rule conferring authority on courts to open, correct, or vacate their own judgments.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eager v. Derowitsch““Judgments by default are not favored. Courts prefer that cases be tried upon the merits,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eager v. Derowitsch
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.