Ledwith v. Storkan’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Tozer v. Charles A. Krause Milling Co. (1951), Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.) (1987)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 50 U.S.C. § 3901 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act)
Relies on Shearman v. Jorgensen · Orange Theatre Corp. v. Rayherstz Amusement Corp. · Dow v. Ross · Lyman v. Dunn · Doyle v. Rice Ranch Oil 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the admonition towards indulgence in the exercise of an allowable discretion must not betray the court into a meddling manifestation of assumed discretion in circumstances which, under the rules, do not bring discretion into operation. Much less should it be resorted to in support of an indefensibly sympathetic appraisal of an attempted showing of ‘inadvertence or excusable neglect’. If the showing be inadequate fairly to establish such ‘inadvertence or excusable neglect’, the simple, even if sometimes unpleasant, duty of the court is to find accordingly and deny the relief sought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether inadvertence or neglect be relied upon for relief from default, the offending act or omission must be excusable.”
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.