Meadows v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 750 · 1969
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Compton v. Alton Steamship Co. (1979), Scola v. Boat Frances, R., Inc. (1980)
65 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Groendyke Transport, Inc. v. Davis · McDowell v. Celebrezze · Abramson v. Superintendence Co. · Wittner v. United States
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; ... or (6) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. 329.73 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situated in Grenada and Yalobusha Counties, State of Mississippi, J.G. Carter and Unknown Owners, Alfred A. Bryant, United States of America v. 329.73 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situated in Grenada and Yalobusha Counties, State of Mississippi, J.G. Carter and Unknown Owners, Billy D. Benoist · 396 So. 2d 692 - City of Birmingham v. City of Fairfield““It is the view of this Court that under the present Rule [60 (b) (1)], a court is authorized under subsection (1) to correct a substantive ‘mistake’ of its own, if motion is made within a reasonable time, which would clearly encompass a time not exceeding the time allowed for appeal.” Meadows v. Cohen, 5th Cir., 1969, 409 F.2d 750, 752, n. 4 . Cf. Silk v. Sandoval, 1st Cir. 1971, 435 F.2d 1266, 1267 ; Moore, ¶ 60.22 [3].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chavez v. Balesh · Crane v. Kerr“which was clearly at variance with the plain wording”
4 later decisions 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.