Hoult v. Hoult’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 1 · 1995
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 28 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa (2010), State v. Fischer (2010)
31 federal appellate · 28 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Link v. Wabash Railroad · United States v. Locascio · Teamsters Chauffeurs Warehousemen and Helpers Union Local No v. Superline Transportation Company Inc · Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a judge conducting a hearing or trial is unable to proceed, any other judge may proceed upon certifying familiarity with the record and determining that the case may be completed without prejudice to the parties. In a hearing or a nonjury trial, the successor judge must, at a party’s request, recall any witness whose testimony is material and disputed and who is available to testify again without undue burden. The successor judge may also recall any other witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; ... (3) fraud ... misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party; ... or (6) any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Daubert does instruct district courts to conduct a preliminary assessment of the reliability of expert testimony, even in the absence of an objection.”
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.