Williams v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 993 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Provident Savings Bank v. Popovich (1995), Reinsurance Company of America Inc v. Administratia Asigurarilor Stat (1990)
22 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society · Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · McKnight v. United States Steel Corp. · Inryco, Inc. v. Metropolitan Engineering Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A]buse of discretion in denying a 60(b) motion is established only when no reasonable person could agree with the district court; there is no abuse of discretion if a reasonable person could disagree as to the propriety of the court's action.'”
2 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.