Fhc Llc v. Mbl’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.3d 678 · 1999
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Arnold v. Wood (2001), Mccurry v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc. (2002)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Nemaizer v. Baker · Myers v. Ace Hardware, Inc. · Denley v. Shearson/American Express, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not point us to a single case, however, which holds that attorney misinterpretation of the law can constitute 'mistake' under Rule 60(b)(1).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute[ ] `mistake' justifying the setting aside of a judgment under Rule 60(b) to permit a second bite at the appeal apple.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where counsel makes a deliberate choice to rely on one legal theory, the party cannot thereafter attempt to be relieved of the consequences of that conscious decision should the theory prove to be unsuccessful.”
1 later decision 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.