Burrell v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.3d 826 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Thompson v. Bell (2009), Frontier Insurance v. Blaty (2006)
8 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Invst Financial Group, Inc. v. Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. · United Coin Meter Company Inc v. Seaboard Coastline Railroad · Good Wwa v. Ohio Edison Company · Thompson v. American Home Assurance Co. · Waifersong, Ltd. v. Classic Music Vending
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect; ... (4) the judgment is void; ... or (6) any other reason that justifies relief.”
1 later decision 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.