Wiggins v. Bunch’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Sink v. Easter (1975), 70 N.C. App. 627 - Estrada v. Jaques (1984)
74 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 Draper v. Davis · Norman v. Young · James v. McCormack · Hoke v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp. · American Floor MacHine Co. v. Dixon
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Notwithstanding notice of appeal a cause remains in fieri during the term in which the judgment was rendered, and (2) The trial judge, after notice and on proper showing, may adjudge the appeal has been abandoned.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“the general rule is that when an appeal is taken from the district court the latter court is divested of jurisdiction, except to take action in aid of the appeal, until the case is remanded to it by the appellate court. Hence during the pendency of an appeal it is generally held that the district court is without power to grant relief under Rule 59 [.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wolgin v. Wolgin“The `nearly identical provisions of our Rule 60(b) and Federal Rule 60(b) point to the Federal decisions for interpretation and enlightenment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.