Flemming v. Flemming’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2026
1 district · 10 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 First National Bank of Crosby v. Bjorgen · Shull v. Walcker · Filler v. Bragg · State Ex Rel. North Dakota Department of Labor for the Benefit of Fair Housing of the Dakotas v. Riemers · Beaudoin v. South Texas Blood & Tissue Center
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a default judgment is , entered against a defendant, the defendant should not appeal but may move the district court for relief from the default judgment under N.D.R.Civ.P. 60(b). Rule 60(b)[,] N.D.R.Civ.P.[,] is the exclusive means for opening a default judgment. The district court may grant the motion for relief from a default judgment in order to decide a case on the merits. If the district court denies the N.D.R.Civ.P. 60(b) motion, the defendant then can appeal the order denying the motion to vacate the default judgment.”
2 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.