Stafford v. Mesnik’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 1445 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Smith v. Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees (1999), Swaim v. Moltan Co. (1996)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. Di Mucci · Tolliver v. Northrop Corp. · Uranium Antitrust Litigation Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. Rio Algom Limited Rtz · Dundee Cement Company v. Howard Pipe & Concrete Products Inc · Johnson v. Gudmundsson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision under 60(b) is discretion piled on discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swaim v. Moltan Co.
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.