Conley v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Thayer v. American Financial Advisers, Inc. (1982), Charson v. Temple Israel (1988)
1 district · 25 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 Hinz v. Northland Milk & Ice Cream Co. · Finden v. Klaas · Kosloski v. Jones · Taylor v. Steinke · Mathwig v. Strand
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a reasonable claim on the merits; (2) a reasonable excuse for its failure or neglect to act; (3) that it has acted with due diligence after notice of entry of judgment; and (4) that no substantial prejudice will result to the opponent.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“When default is made in the conditions of any contract for the conveyance of real estate or any interest therein executed on or after May 1, 1980, whereby the vendor has the right to terminate the same, he may do so by serving upon the purchaser, * * * a notice specifying the conditions in which default has been made, and stating that the contract will terminate * * * (3) 90 days after service of the notice if the purchaser has paid 25 percent, or more, of the purchase price, exclusive of interest thereon, * *. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomey v. Stewart“On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment (other than a divorce decree), order, or proceeding and may order a new trial or grant such other relief as may be just for the following reasons: (1) Mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect * * *.”
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.