Carter v. Fenner’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1000 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Burke v. Smith (2001), Oldfield v. Pueblo De Bahia Lora, S.A. (2009)
25 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Hudson v. McMillian · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct, Inc. · Bonanno v. United States
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judgment has been satisfied, released or discharged; it is based on an earlier judgment that has been reversed or vacated; or applying it prospectively is no longer equitable.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review de novo .... a district court's ruling upon a Rule 60(b)(4) motion to set aside a judgment as void, because the question of the validity of a judgment is a legal one.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from its inception, was a complete nullity and without legal effect,”
4 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.