Fernandez v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 459 · 1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2012
12 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 Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · United States v. Hasting · Polk County v. Dodson · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[F]raud on the court' occurs where it can be demonstrated, clearly and convincingly, that a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system's ability impartially to adjudicate a matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fraud ... misrepresentation or other misconduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hull
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.