Mares v. Busby’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 533 · 1994
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Computer Professionals for Responsibility v. United States Secret Service (1996), Gagan v. American Cablevision, Inc. (1996)
33 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc. · McKnight v. United States Steel Corp. · 116 Ill. 2d 63 - Catlett v. Novak · United States v. Deutsch
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court will have abused its discretion only in situations in which no reasonable person could agree with the district court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““§24. In the actions specified in this Act or any other act or contract where the time for commencing an action is limited, if judgment is given for the plaintiff but reversed on appeal; or if there is a verdict for the plaintiff and, upon matter alleged in arrest of judgment, the judgment is given against the plaintiff; or the action is voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff if the -plaintiff in nonsuited, or the action is dismissed for want of prosecution then, whether or not the time limitation for bringing such action expires during the pendency of such suit, .the plaintiff, his heirs, executors or administrators may commence a new action within one year or within the remaining period of limitation, whichever is greater, after such judgment is reversed or given against the plaintiff, or after the action is voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff plaintiff is nonsuited or the action is dismissed for want of prosecution.” Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 83, par. 24a; Public Act 79-1358; see, Laws of the State of Illinois, 79th General Assembly, pages 743-744 (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: * * * (3) fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation or other misconduct of an adverse party; (4) the judgment is void; * * * (6) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment. * # *”
2 later decisions 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.