McLaughlin v. Jung’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 1310 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · United States v. Armour & Co. · Metlyn Realty Corp. v. Esmark, Inc. · Smith v. Widman Trucking & Excavating, Inc. · James Patton, R.L. Hildebrand, Burns Harbor Plaza, Inc., and R.L. Hildebrand Enterprises, Inc. v. Mid-Continent Systems, Inc.
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.
“both parties share a common assumption about a vital existing fact upon which they based their bargain and that assumption is false ... [and] because of the mistake, a quite different exchange of values occurs from the exchange of values the parties contemplated....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well-established that carelessness or a lack of due care on the part of a litigant or [his] attorney does not provide a basis for relief under Rule 60(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Hatcher
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.