Kramer v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 788 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 53 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 659 F. Supp. 2d 31 - In Re Islamic Republic of Iran Terrorism Litigation (2009), Cohen v. Board of Trustees of the University (2016)
15 federal appellate · 53 district ·
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Hanna v. Plumer · United States v. Atkinson
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has emphasized that Rule 60(b)(6) 'should be only sparingly used' and may not 'be employed simply to rescue a litigant from strategic choices that later turn out to be improvident,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In short, plaintiffs must clear a very high bar to obtain relief under Rule 60(b)(6).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
3 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.