Lasky v. Continental Products Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 250 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Budget Blinds, Inc. v. White (2008), Beckett v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n (1993)
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Hanna v. Plumer · Mayberry v. Maroney · Stradley v. Cortez · Smith v. Widman Trucking & Excavating, Inc. · Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air G
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of a court to enter a consent decree emanates from its authority to adjudicate the rights of the parties in the first instance. The authority thereafter to [enforce] the consent decree similarly derives directly from the court's initial exercise of jurisdiction over the dispute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[1] the general desirability that a final judgment should not be lightly disturbed; [2] the procedure provided by Rule 60(b) is not a substitute for an appeal; [3] the Rule should be liberally construed for the purpose of doing substantial justice; [4] whether, although the motion is made within the maximum time, if any, provided by the Rule, the motion is made within a reasonable time; ... [5] whether there are any intervening equities which make it inequitable to grant relief; [6] any other factor that is relevant to the justice of the [order] under attack.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f relief is sought from a default judgment or a judgment of dismissal where there has been no consideration of the merits, [the court should consider] whether in the particular case the interest of deciding cases on the merits outweighs the interest in orderly procedure and in the finality of judgments, and whether there is merit in the defense or claim, as the case may be.”
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.