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335 F.2d 645 · 1964

Citation profile

75
cited by 75 later decisions
5
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

38 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Seven Elves, Inc. v. Eskenazi (1981), Hoffman v. Celebrezze (1969)

38 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

220196419701980199020002010decided

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 Conley v. Gibson · Rodriguez v. New York · Zimmern v. United States · Smoot v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Warren v. Palmer

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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Of course a Rule 60(b) proceeding by motion or independent action calls for a delicate adjustment between the desirability of finality and the prevention of injustice.””
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. American Employers Insurance v. Sybil Realty, Inc. · Meadows v. Cohen
  2. ““In the process of this exploration it should be kept in mind that Rule 60(b) is to be given liberal construction. United States v. Gould, 5th Cir., 1962, 301 F.2d 353 . Michigan Surety Company v. Service Machinery Corp., 277 F.2d 531 (5th Cir., 1960); Serio v. Badger Mut. Ins. Co., 266 F.2d 418 (5th Cir., 1959) cert. denied, 361 U.S. 382 , 80 S.Ct. 81 , 4 L.Ed.2d 73 ; 3 Barron & Holtzoff § 1332(n) 9 (Wright Supp. 1963).””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. American Employers Insurance v. Sybil Realty, Inc. · Ideal Structures Corp. v. Levine Huntsville Development Corp.
  3. ““[or] any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. American Employers Insurance v. Sybil Realty, Inc. · The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a Mutual Insurance Company v. Kenneth J. MacGill

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.