Lambert v. Lua’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2024
5 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 Amfac, Inc. v. Waikiki Beachcomber Investment Co. · Baehr v. Lewin · BDM, INC. v. Sageco, Inc. · 8 Haw. App. 226 - Dillingham Investment Corp. v. Kunio Yokoyama Trust · Hawai'i Housing Authority v. Uyehara
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny doubt should be resolved in favor of the party seeking relief [from a default or default judgment], so that, in the interests of justice, there can be a full trial on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MD v. JR
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.