Strack v. Pelton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
568 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 571 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State ex rel. Richard v. Seidner (1996), Robb v. Smallwood (2005)
568 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 GTE Automatic Electric, Inc. v. ARC Industries, Inc. · Rose Chevrolet, Inc. v. Adams · Caruso-Ciresi, Inc. v. Lohman · Knapp v. Knapp
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 571 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These requirements are independent and in the conjunctive; thus the test is not fulfilled if any one of the requirements is not met.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage“On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or his legal representative from a final judgment, order or proceeding for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(B); (3) fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation or other misconduct of an adverse party; (4) the judgment has been satisfied, released or discharged, or a prior judgment upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer equitable that the judgment should have prospective application; or (5) any other reason justifying relief from the judgment. The motion shall be made within a reasonable time, and for reasons (1), (2) and (3) not more than one year after the judgment order or proceeding was entered or taken.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage“'requires that there be some end to every lawsuit, thus producing certainty in the law and public confidence in the system's ability to resolve disputes.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.