Ritter v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1398 · 1987
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Toole v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. (2000), Blue Diamond Coal Co. v. Trustees of the UMWA Combined Benefit Fund (2001)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Strickland v. Washington · Mapp v. Ohio · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Ackermann v. United States · Klapprott 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur investigation [of the law], leads us to conclude that something more than a `mere' change in the law is necessary to provide the grounds for Rule 60(b)(6) relief,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a change in the law will not always provide the truly extraordinary circumstances necessary to reopen a case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvest v. Castro · Reid v. Tavete“a Rule 60(b)(6) movant 'must persuade [the court] that the circumstances are sufficiently extraordinary to warrant relief.' Even then, whether to grant the requested relief is ... a matter for the district court's sound discretion.”
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.