Adel v. Parkhurst’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Tomaselli v. Transamerica Insurance (1994), Herman v. Sunshine Chemical Specialties, Inc. (1993)
4 federal appellate · 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 Pope v. United States · Gomes v. Williams · Danculovich v. Brown · Robert W. Anderson House-Wrecking & Excavating, Inc. v. Board of Trustees · State v. District Court of Eighth Jud. Dist.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden, however, is upon those seeking more than mere nominal damages to prove their damages. The requirement of Rule 55(b)(2), W.R.C.P., of a hearing with respect to damages which are not liquidated is consistent with the rule of those cases. The default permitted by a defendant does not concede the amount demanded for unliquidated damages.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, in order to enable the court to enter judgment [by default] or to carry it into effect, it is necessary to take an account or to determine the amount of damages or to establish the truth of any averment by evidence or to make an investigation of any other matter, the court may con duct such hearings or order such references as it deems necessary and proper. 10”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Slinee [appellant] did appear by counsel at and participate in the [default judgment] hearing no prejudice could be asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosty v. Skaj
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.