Mitchell v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 417 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2011
6 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Ackermann v. United States · Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. · Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · United States v. Throckmorton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 60(b)(6) may not be used to escape the consequences of the movant's dilatory failure to take a timely appeal.”
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.