Collex, Inc. v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2012
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Flaks v. Koegel · H. F. Livermore Corp. v. Aktiengesellschaft Gebruder Loepfe · Winfield Associates, Inc. v. Stonecipher · Hutton v. Fisher · Meeker v. Rizley
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is clear that a judgment may not be entered by default without a hearing, unless the amount claimed is a liquidated amount or an amount capable of mathematical calculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Journey v. Long“the cases discussing the sum certain requirement of Rule 55 are few and far between and rather exiguous in their reasoning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff's claim against a defendant is for a sum ... which can by computation be made certain.”
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.