Dyer v. Pacheco’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2009
16 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 Franco v. Federal Building Service, Inc. · Ben Sager Chemicals International, Inc. v. E. Targosz & Co. · Maryland ex rel. Burkhardt v. United States · Springer Corporation v. Herrera · Gallegos Ex Rel. Estate of Gallegos v. Franklin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court must be satisfied that facts or questions of law involved, or both, make it a part of wisdom to set aside the default judgment * * *. Any doubts about whether relief should be granted are resolved in favor of the defaulting defendant because default judgments are not favored in the . law[.]”
1 later decision 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.