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Katz v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
June 2020
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Menzies v. Galetka (2006), Morton v. Continental Baking Co. (1997)

31 state decisions

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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 Winfield Associates, Inc. v. Stonecipher · Hirsch v. National Van Lines, Inc. · Williams v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. · 4 Kan. App. 2d 296 - Miotk v. Rudy · 30 Utah 2d 65 - Airkem Intermountain, Inc. v. Parker

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'it is quite uniformly regarded as an abuse of discretion to refuse to vacate a default judgment where there is reasonable justification or excuse for the defendant's failure to appear, and timely application is made to set it aside.'”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Menzies v. Galetka · Lund v. Brown
  2. “before we will interfere with the trial court’s exercise of discretion, abuse of that discretion must be clearly shown.... That some basis may exist to set aside the default does not require the conclusion that the court abused its discretion in refusing to do so when the facts and circumstances support the refusal.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Utah Department of Transportation v. Osguthorpe · Stevens v. LaVerkin City
  3. “(tlhe district court judge is vested with considerable discretion under Rule 60(b) in granting or denying a motion to set aside a judgment.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Duran v. Labor Commission · BLACK'S TITLE v. Utah State Ins. Dept.

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.