Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

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9 district · 2 state decisions

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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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “it is true ... the private right of parties which have been vested by the judgment of a court cannot be taken away by subsequent legislation, but must be thereafter enforced by the court regardless of such legislation.... This rule, however, as held in the Wheeling Bridge case, does not apply to a suit brought for the enforcement of a public right, which, even after it has been established by the judgment of the court, may be annulled by subsequent legislation and should not be thereafter enforced....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 972 F. Supp. 1239 - Taylor v. State of Ariz. · 37 F. Supp. 2d 855 - Ruiz v. Johnson

2. “[f]or purposes of retroactive legislation, a case is final only after the availability of appeal is exhausted, and the time for a petition for certiorari has elapsed or the petition has been denied. Because the Anixter plaintiffs' petition for certiorari was before the Supreme Court at the time section 27A was enacted, the case had not completed its journey through the appellate process and was therefore not final.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Ivan A. Anixter Blanche Dickenson Dolly K. Yoshida, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Home-Stake Production Company, an Oklahoma Corporation Home-Stake 1971 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1970 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1969 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1968 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1967 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1966 Program Operating Corporation Home-Stake 1965 Program Operating Corporation Robert S. Trippet E.M. Kunkel Thomas A. Landrith J.D. Metcalfe H.B. Gutelius H.L. Fitzgerald, and Wynema Anna Cross, of the Estate of Norman C. Cross, Jr., A.M. Anderson Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, as Trustee for Merl McHenry Joseph A. Buda, Arthur Bueche, George V.T. And Helen Burgess Dewey J. Cali William H. Colquhoun S.W. Corbin Robert B. Coburn Vigil B. Day William H. Dennler Mario Dimartino Stella Dimartino John M. Evans Margaret C. Everett Isador H. Finkelstein Joseph H. Gauss H.W. Gouldthorpe Ralph Hart James J. Hayes Earl D. Hilburn Joseph E. Horak Gerald A. Hoyt Richard M. Hurst Ralph Iannucci Emily Iannucci Milton F. Kent Howard Kicherer Elizabeth Kicherer John Kokoszka Millie B. Lassing Joseph Levin Marie F. Levin John D. Lockton Dennis G. Lyons Ferdinand F. McAllister Russell W. McFall James Madden Albert Manganelli Nicholas A. Marchese Stanley A. Marks John G. Martin C.W. Moeller Andrew Overby Carl E. Palermo Frank A. Palermo Roy T. Parker, Jr. Bruce M. Robertson D.D. Scarff M.L. Scarff A.E. Schubert William R. Smart E. Starr Janet G. Stewart Gerald Toomey Paul Townsend Vernon Underwood H.B. Waldron, Jr. Ted B. Westfall v. Home-Stake Production Company, an Oklahoma Corporation Home-Stake 1970 Program Operating Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Robert S. Trippet Harry Heller Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, a Partnership Thomas A. Landrith, Jr. E.M. Kunkel McAfee Taft, Mark, Bond, Rucks, and Woodruff, a Professional Corporation and Its Professional Employees and Attorneys and Partners, Their Successors and Assigns, and Wynema Anna Cross, of the Estate of Norman C. Cross, Jr., A.M. Anderson Richard J. Anton Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, as Trustee for Merl McHenry E.P. Bernuth, Sophie K. Bernuth, Joseph A. Buda, George and Helen Burgess Dewey Cali Robert B. Coburn Coburn & Libby, Inc. Edward v. Coonan S.W. Corbin William H. Dennler Mario Dimartino Stella Dimartino John Evans Margaret C. Everett L.L. Ferguson Isador H. Finkelstein H.W. Gouldthorpe George L. Haller Jack Hanson Ralph Hart F.H. Holt Joseph E. Horak Gerald A. Hoyt Howard G. Kicherer Elizabeth C. Kicherer John Kokoszka Millie B. Lassing Joseph Levin Marie Levin John D. Lockton D.W. Lynch D.B. Lynch Dennis G. Lyons Ferdinand F. McAllister Russell McFall James F. Madden Albert Manganelli Nicholas Marchese Stanley A. Marks C.W. Moeller William H. Mortensen Carl Olson Patricia Olson Carl Palermo Frank Palermo Roy T. Parker Helen M. Reeder D.D. Scarff M.L. Scarff Richard Scott Louis P. Singer William R. Smart J. Stanford Smith G. Curtis Stewart Paul Townsend Vernon Underwood Ted B. Westfall J. Howard Wood Sidney Woolwich Murray Zimmerman v. Home-Stake Production Company, an Oklahoma Corporation Home-Stake 1969 Program Operating Corporation, a Delaware Corporation Robert S. Trippet E.M. Kunkel Thomas A. Landrith, Jr. Harry Heller William Blum Simpson Thacher and Bartlett William D. Lewis Richard A. Ganong Lewis & Ganong, a Partnership, and Wynema Anna Cross, of the Estate of Norman C. Cross, Jr. · Anixter

3. “We have described Rule 60(b)(6) as a “grand reservoir of equitable power to do justice in a particular case.” Pierce v. Cook & Co., 518 F.2d 720 (10th Cir. 1975) (en banc) (citation omitted), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1079 , 96 S.Ct. 866 , 47 L.Ed.2d 89 (1976). In Pierce , we were confronted with “[t]he kind of legal error that provides the extraordinary circumstances justifying relief under rule 60(b)(6).” Van Skiver v. United States, 952 F.2d 1241, 1244 (10th Cir.1991), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 828 , 113 S.Ct. 89 , 121 L.Ed.2d 51 (1992). We granted Rule 60(b)(6) relief in Pierce based on a post-judgment change in the law “arising out of the same accident as that in which the plaintiffs ... were injured.” 518 F.2d at 723 . Absent a post-judgment change in the law in a factually-related case, however, “we have held that ‘a change in the law or in the judicial view of an established rule of law1 does not justify relief under Rule 60(b)(6).” Van Skiver, 952 F.2d at 1245 (quoting Collins v. City of Wichita, 254 F.2d 837, 839 (10th Cir. 1958)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 405 F. Supp. 2d 1302 - MacArthur v. San Juan County