Ganther v. Ingle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a “party is not entitled to a default judgment as a matter of right, even where the defendant is technically in default.”
• “[S]cheduling is a matter which is generally left to the discretion of the district court.”
• “A party is not entitled to a default judgment as a matter of right . . . .”
• “The district court should have con- strued Ganther’s response to the motion for summary judgment as a motion to amend his complaint.”
• “Federal claims against state employees in their official capacities are the equivalent of suits against the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lewis v. Lynn
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-01-11· cited 402×
• Freeman v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-05-07· cited 208×
• J & J Sports Productions, Inc. v. Morelia Mexican Restaurant, Inc.
  N.D. Texas· 2015-08-28· cited 128×
• United States v. 1998 Freightliner Vin : 1FUYCZYB3WP886986
  W.D. Texas· 2008-04-30· cited 116×
• Adkins v. Kaspar
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-12-08· cited 107×
• Adkins v. Kaspar
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-01-07· cited 73×
• Escalante v. Lidge
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-05-19· cited 66×
• Walgreen Co. v. Hood
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-12-20· cited 39×
• Cronn v. Buffington
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-08-27· cited 31×
• Holland Ex Rel. Holland v. City of Houston
  S.D. Texas· 1999-01-07· cited 31×
• Jolly v. Klein
  S.D. Texas· 1996-03-29· cited 28×
• Loomis v. Starkville Mississippi Public School District
  N.D. Mississippi· 2015-12-15· cited 27×
• Settlement Funding, LLC v. Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-01-13· cited 23×
• Almond v. Tarver
  E.D. Texas· 2006-08-15· cited 17×
• Balawajder v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-09-15· cited 15×
• Casanova v. City of Brookshire
  S.D. Texas· 2000-09-07· cited 14×
• Taylor v. City of Baton Rouge
  M.D. Louisiana· 2014-08-25· cited 12×
• Fagan v. Lawrence Nathan Associates, Inc.
  E.D. Louisiana· 2013-07-09· cited 12×
• United States v. Giles
  W.D. Texas· 2008-03-14· cited 11×
• Payne v. Collins
  E.D. Texas· 1997-06-25· cited 9×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 8,956×
• City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 5,797×
• Cruz v. Beto
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-20· cited 2,756×
• O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-09· cited 2,176×
• Kendall Sherman and Arthur Sherman, Jr. v. Fred H. Hallbauer
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-02-16· cited 246×
• David R. Ruiz, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee v. W. J. Estelle, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-06-26· cited 216×
• Mason v. Lister
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-11-04· cited 179×
• Alfred D. White v. Frank C. Carlucci, Secretary, Department of Defense, and James Webb, Secretary, Department of the Navy
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-01-12· cited 170×
• Aaron Spann v. Police Officer A.G. Rainey, Aaron Spann v. A.G. Rainey, Police Officer, A.G. Rainey, Police Officer
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-03-25· cited 145×
• Rankin v. Klevenhagen
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-10-18· cited 142×
• Gillum v. City of Kerrville
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-09-16· cited 85×
• Donald Ray Frank v. Charles Terrell
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-10-31· cited 11×