Wilson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 801 · 1981
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc. (1988), Bonar v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. (1988)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Sakraida v. Ag Pro, Inc. · Rozier v. Ford Motor Co. · Wilson v. Thompson · Quincy Lairsey and Frances Lairsey v. The Advance Abrasives Company · Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Ss Zoe Colocotroni
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] party ... may prevail without showing that the alleged fraud affected the outcome of the prior trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]his circuit, along with other circuits and the commentators, has expressly recognized power in the district court to consider on the merits, and deny, a 60(b) motion filed after a notice of appeal, because the court's action is in furtherance of the appeal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahone v. Ray“This circuit has decided that a district court retains jurisdiction to consider and deny a Rule 60(b) motion filed after the perfection of an appeal of the original decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahone v. Ray
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.