Vanasse v. Ramsay’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Doctors' Co. v. Insurance Corp. of America (1993), Reavis v. Reavis (1998)
72 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 H. F. Livermore Corp. v. Aktiengesellschaft Gebruder Loepfe · Independent Oil and Chemical Workers of Quincy Inc v. Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company · Martin v. State · United Coin Meter Company Inc v. Seaboard Coastline Railroad · Picco v. Global Marine Drilling 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judicial discretion is a composite of many things, among which are conclusions drawn from objective criteria; it means a sound judgment exercised with regard to what is right under the circumstances and without doing so arbitrarily or capriciously.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jacobson v. Kidd · Watt v. Watt“(b) Other reasons.-On motion, and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or a party's legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence surprise, or excusable neglect{.]”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“For good cause shown the court may set aside an entry of default and, if a judgment by default has been entered, may likewise set it aside in accordance with Rule 60(b).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.