United States v. Walus’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 283 · 1980
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. A & P Steel, Inc. (1984), McKnight v. United States Steel Corp. (1984)
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1451 (§ 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the evidence was discovered following trial; (2) due diligence on the part of the mov-ant to discover the new evidence is shown or may be inferred; (3) the evidence is not merely cumulative or impeaching; (4) the evidence is material; (5) the evidence is such that a new trial would probably produce a new result.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent the judgment from becoming a vehicle of injustice,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could be characterized as neglect, ... we nevertheless cannot hold that the results of this trial are forever insulated from re-examination. In light of the strength of the new evidence, affirmance of the district court's decision would be to accept an evil far greater than waste of the court's or litigant's time.”
2 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.