Levander v. Prober’s Empirical Analysis
180 F.3d 1114 · 1999
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Turner v. Pleasant (2011), Appling v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003)
20 federal appellate · 4 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 11 U.S.C. § 105 · 28 U.S.C. § 158
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · State v. Simpson · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... embrace[s] only that species of fraud which does or attempts to, defile the court itself, or is a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court so that the judicial machinery can not perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases that are presented for adjudication. 53 Id. (internal quotation marks). Non-disclosure, or perjury by a party or witness, does not, by itself, amount to fraud on the court. Id. at 1119-20. 54 Fraud on the court requires a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that the new party be the alter ego of the old party and (2) that the new party had controlled the litigation, thereby having had the opportunity to litigate, in order to satisfy due process concerns.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]ampering with the administration of justice in this manner involves far more than an injury to a single litigant. It is a wrong against the institutions set up to protect and safeguard the public.”
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.