68 N.C. App. 52 - Beard v. Pembaur’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2019
20 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 Peebles v. Moore · 32 N.C. App. 288 - Roland v. W & L Motor Lines, Inc. · 48 N.C. App. 497 - Peebles v. Moore · Byrd v. Mortenson · 60 N.C. App. 459 - Bailey v. Gooding
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant] filed her motion to set aside the entry of default. . . [and] alleged that she “was unaware that she was required to file an Answer to the Plaintiff’s complaint as she is not an attorney and has not been involved in civil litigation, other than the present domestic civil action.” The, trial court found that [defendant] had not shown “good cause” to set aside the entry of default and denied defendant [her] motion. . . . [W]e cannot say on these facts that the decision of the learned trial court not to set aside the entry of default was unsupported by reason.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“discovery was being pursued vigorously by the parties; that [the] plaintiff's counsel thought, albeit erroneously, that service was not perfected on [the] defendant until ... four days before the entry of default; and that all matters in [the] defendant's [c]ounterclaim related to the ... subject of all material allegations in the plaintiff's [c]omplaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ven if the trial court used as its standard, 'good cause,' as set forth in Rule 55(d), the trial court abused its discretion”
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.