Gross v. Stereo Component Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 120 · 1983
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Poulis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1984), Robin Chamberlain v. Vincent C. Giampapa, M.D., Individually and Dba Plastic Surgery Center Internationale (2000)
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 365
Relies on Feliciano v. Reliant Tooling Co. · Farnese v. Bagnasco · Donnelly v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the plaintiff will be prejudiced; 2. Whether the defendant has a meritorious defense; and 3. Whether culpable conduct of the defendant led to the default.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his court does not favor defaults and ... in a close case doubts should be resolved in favor of setting aside the default and reaching a decision on the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actions taken willfully or in bad faith.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.