Lonsdorf v. Seefeldt’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 893 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Bell v. Eastman Kodak Co. (2000), Provident Savings Bank v. Popovich (1995)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Nix v. Whiteside · Rozier v. Ford Motor Co. · Dugger v. Adams · Square Construction Co. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n 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; ... (3) fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentations, or other misconduct of an adverse party....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the party maintained a meritorious claim at trial; and (2) because of the fraud, misrepresentation or misconduct of the adverse party; (3) the party was prevented from fully and fairly presenting its case at trial.”
3 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.