Springer Corporation v. Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Franco v. Federal Building Service, Inc. (1982), State v. Nunez (1999)
86 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 Tozer v. Charles A. Krause Milling Co. · 63 Cal. 2d 849 - Weitz v. Yankosky · Gomes v. Williams · Oliphant v. Atlantic Coast Line R. · Bridoux v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Two issues arise on every application to open or vacate a judgment, namely, the existence of grounds for opening or vacating the judgment, and the existence of a meritorious defense or cause of action, as the case may be. . Actually, there is no universally accepted standard as to what satisfies the requirement that a party show a meritorious defense. . . We think that matter is best left to the discretion of the trial judge—as is the decision regarding whether a good excuse has been shown. We must insist, however, that in exercising its discretion the trial court apply a liberal standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathieson v. Hubler
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.