Hand v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 529 · 1971
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably United States v. Janis (1976), Rozier v. Ford Motor Co. (1978)
52 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Marchetti v. United States · Grosso v. United States · Pizzarello 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Motions for relief from a final judgment are addressed to the sound discretion of the district court, guided of course by accepted legal principles. Therefore, in the absence of an abuse of discretion, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Quire
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.