Watts v. Pinckney’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 406 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Wages v. Internal Revenue Service (1990), Campaniello Imports, Ltd. v. Saporiti Italia S.p.A. (1997)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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. § 2322
Relies on Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero · Maryland ex rel. Levin v. United States · Lubben v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 27
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not apply to direct attacks on judgments.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the court that considered it lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter, or [of] the parties or if the court acted in a manner inconsistent with due process of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A void judgment is a legal nullity and a court considering a motion to vacate has no discretion in determining whether it should be set aside.”
3 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.