Fox v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 177 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Sanders v. Clemco Industries (1988), United States v. O'Neil (1983)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Hoffman v. Celebrezze · Silas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Raymond MOORE, Appellant, v. ST. LOUIS MUSIC SUPPLY COMPANY, INC., Appellee
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.
“[t]o prevent its use as a substitute for appeal, we have required a Rule 60(b) motion alleging judicial inadvertence to be made within the time period allowed for appeal,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“relief under Rule 60(b)(1) for judicial error other than for judicial inadvertence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“voluntarily chose this attorney as his representative in the action, and he cannot now avoid the consequences of the acts or omissions of this freely selected agent.”
1 later decision 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.