Clark v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2012
13 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 Burnett v. Griffith · Herbert v. Harl · Producers Produce Co. v. Industrial Commission of Missouri Division of Employment Security · 104 Wash. 2d 293 - Turngren v. King County · Gibson Ex Rel. Woodall v. Elley
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon motion stating facts constituting a meritorious defense and for good cause shown, ... a default judgment may be set aside. The motion shall be made within a reasonable time not to exceed one year after the entry of the default judgment. Good cause includes ... conduct that is not intentionally or recklessly designed to impede the judicial process....’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. St. John
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.