Kahn v. Orme’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2020
22 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 Luz v. Lopes · Central Operating Co. v. Utility Workers of America · Hotel Last Frontier Corp. v. Frontier Properties, Inc. · Franklin v. Bartsas Realty, Inc. · Britz v. Consolidated Casinos Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ant of diligence in seeking to set aside a judgment is ground enough for denial of such a motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to obtain new representation or otherwise act on his own behalf is inexcusable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.