Great Coastal Express, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 1349 · 1982
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. ESM Group, Inc. (1988), Colonial Penn Insurance v. Coil (1989)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Bates v. State Bar · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · United States v. Throckmorton · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'fraud upon the court' should [ ] embrace only that species of fraud which does or attempts to, subvert the integrity of the court itself, or is a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court so that the judicial machinery cannot perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases that are presented for adjudication, and relief should be denied in the absence of such conduct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“typically confined to the most egregious cases, such as bribery of a judge or juror, or improper influence exerted on the court by an attorney, in which the integrity of the court and its ability to function impartially is directly impinged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“overwhelm the specific provision of 60(b)(3) and its time limitation and thereby subvert the balance of equities contained in the Rule.”
5 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.