Torockio v. Chamberlain Mfg. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Mayberry v. Maroney (1977), Lorenzen v. Employees Retirement Plan of the Sperry & Hutchinson Co. (1990)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States v. Robinson · Ackermann v. United States · Klapprott v. United States · Robinson v. Lorillard Corp. · North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. v. McJunkin Corp.
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 26 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 his legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon a showing of excusable neglect, the district court may extend the time for filing the notice of appeal by any party for a period not to exceed 30 days from the expiration of the time otherwise prescribed by this subdivision.”
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.