Wallace v. Werd’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2012
1 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 Bavouset v. Shaw's of San Francisco · Employers Mut. Liability Ins. v. Blue Line Transfer Co. · Teal v. King Farms Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The entry of a default judgment pursuant to Rule 55(b), Fed.R.Civ.P., is not a matter of right but is in the sound discretion of the court. Default judgments are not generally favored and any doubt in entering or setting aside a default judgment must be resolved in favor of the defaulting party. If a plaintiff has not been substantially prejudiced by the delay, a defaulting party who has appeared before the court should be afforded the opportunity to answer the complaint.”
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.