Kopp v. Kopp’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Geinert v. Geinert (2002), Gepner v. Fujicolor Processing, Inc. (2001)
29 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 Cliche v. Cliche · First National Bank of Crosby v. Bjorgen · Becker v. Becker · Hamilton v. Hamilton · Crawford v. Crawford
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court’s decision to deny [or grant] relief under N.D.R.CÍV.P. 60(b) will not be overturned on appeal absent an abuse of discretion. We do not determine whether the court was substantively correct in entering the judgment from which relief is sought, but determine only whether the court abused its discretion in ruling ... [whether] sufficient grounds for disturbing the finality of the judgment were ... established. An abuse of discretion- occurs only when the trial court acts in an arbitrary, unconscionable, or unreasonable manner, or when its decision is not the product of a rational mental process leading to a reasoned determination. Rule 60(b) attempts to strike a proper balance between the conflicting principles that litigation must be brought to an end and that justice should be done, and, accordingly, the rule should be invoked only when extraordinary circumstances are present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berry v. Berry“[R]ule [60(b)(vi), N.D.R.Civ.P.,] provides for relief when the movant demonstrates it would be manifestly unjust to enforce a court order or judgment, and provides an escape from the judgment, unhampered by detailed restrictions. When it is disclosed that a judgment is so blatantly one-sided or so rankly unfair under the uncovered circumstances that courts should not enforce it, N.D.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(vi) provides the ultimate safety valve to avoid enforcement by vacating the judgment to accomplish justice. Relief under N.D.R.Civ[.]P. 60(b)(vi) is, by its very nature, invoked to prevent hardship or injustice and thus is to be liberally construed and applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or a party’s legal representative from a final judgment or order in any action or proceeding for the following reasons: (i) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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