Oliver v. Home Indemnity Co.’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 329 · 1972
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably John T. Fackelman v. Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General (1977), Quincy Lairsey and Frances Lairsey v. The Advance Abrasives Company (1976)
32 federal appellate · 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 McDowell v. Celebrezze · Meadows v. Cohen · Oliver v. Monsanto Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
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 his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons:”
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.