Weldon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 1 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Campaniello Imports, Ltd. v. Saporiti Italia S.p.A. (1997), State Bank v. Gledhill (1996)
8 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 42 U.S.C. § 247B (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · Withrow v. Williams · American Surety Co. v. Baldwin · Sturman 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not preclude a litigant from making a direct attack ... upon the judgment before the court which rendered it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ujnder elementary principles of fairness and justice, actions seeking relief from judgments based on alleged fraud upon the court should be treated as continuations of the former action.” Weldon v. United States, 70 F.3d 1, 4 (2d Cir.1995). Accord Switzer v. Coan, 261 F.3d 985 , 988 n. 5 (10th Cir.2001) (noting that the Supreme Court held that independent actions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court to entertain an independent action to relieve a party from a judgment, order, or proceeding ... or to set aside a judgment for fraud upon the court.”
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.