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698 F.2d 270 · 1983

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
September 2013
most recently cited

25 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Davis ex rel. Davis v. Jellico Community Hospital Inc. (1990), Cincinnati Insurance v. Byers (1998)

25 federal appellate ·

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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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on Ackermann v. United States · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Dardi v. United States · Hoffman v. Celebrezze · Pierce v. Cook & Co.

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “On motion and just terms, the court may relieve a party or its legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A motion under Rule 60(b) cannot be used to avoid the consequences of a party's decision to settle the litigation or to forego an appeal from an adverse ruling.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “not more than one year after the judgment, order, or proceeding was entered or taken.”
    1 later decision 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.