Traguth v. Zuck’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 90 · 1983
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 324 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Sims v. Blot (2008), Triestman v. Federal Bureau of Prisons (2006)
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Jackson v. Beech · Meehan v. Snow · Keegel v. Key West & Caribbean Trading 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 324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not exempt a party from compliance with relevant rules of procedural and substantive law,”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether good cause is deemed to have been shown depends on three considerations: “whether the default was willful, whether setting it aside would prejudice the adversary, and whether a meritorious defense is presented.” The decision is committed to the discretion of the district court, but “[a]n abuse of discretion need not be glaring to justify reversal.” The narrow scope of the district court’s discretion stems from “strong policies favoring the resolution of genuine disputes on the merits,” and for the same reasons, “doubts are to be resolved in favor of a trial on the merits.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'strong policies favoring the resolution of genuine disputes on their merits'”
1 later decision 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.