Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 98 · 1986
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Beverly Hills Fan Company v. Royal Sovereign Corp. And Ultec Enterprises Co., Ltd. (1994), Krause v. Ro Bennett (1989)
45 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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. § 1291
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Sandstrom v. Montana · Sanders 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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Rule 60(b) ] is properly invoked where there are extraordinary circumstances, or where the judgment may work an extreme and undue hardship, and should be liberally construed when substantial justice will thus be served.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any other reason justifying relief from judgment.”
4 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.