White v. Westmoreland’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2018
21 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 Kirtland v. Fort Morgan Auth. Sewer Serv., Inc. · Bailey Mortg. Co. v. Gobble-Fite Lumber Co. · 473 So. 2d 529 - Rebel Oil Co. v. Pike · Rooney v. Southern Dependacare, Inc. · Post v. Duffy
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur mandate in this case 'is not to be construed to mean that the trial court must set aside the default judgment, [but] only that the trial court must apply the Kirtland factors in deciding whether to set aside the default judgment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether the defaulting party has a meritorious defense, (2) whether the nondefaulting party will be unfairly prejudiced if the default judgment is set aside, and (3) whether the default judgment was a result of the defaulting party's own culpable conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining whether to set aside a default judgment, a trial court must apply the three-factor analysis set forth by our Supreme Court in Kirtland ,”
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.