Randall v. Merrill Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 1317 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Twelve John Does v. District of Columbia (1988), Lake at Las Vegas Investors Group, Inc. v. Pacific Malibu Development Corp. (1991)
24 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 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. § 1404
Relies on Ackermann v. United States · Klapprott v. United States · Good Luck Nursing Home, Inc. v. Harris · Werner v. Carbo · Thorp v. Scarne
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relieve a party from a final judgment, order or proceeding.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 41(a)(1)(i) ... provides a simple, self-executing mechanism whereby a case may be dismissed in certain circumstances without motion, argument, or judicial order.... [T]he dismissal takes effect automatically: the trial judge has no role to play at all.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he court may relieve a party ... from a final judgment ... for the following reasons: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence that, with reasonable diligence, could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b); (3) fraud (whether previously called intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or misconduct by an opposing party; (4) the judgment is void; (5) the judgment has been satisfied, released or discharged; it is based on an earlier judgment that has been reversed or vacated; or applying it prospectively is no longer equitable; or (6) any other reason that justifies relief.”
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.