Engleson v. Burlington Northern Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 1038 · 1992
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc. (1992), Latshaw v. Trainer Wortham & Co. (2006)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Relies on In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Simuel v. United States · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either ignorance nor carelessness on the part of the litigant or his attorney provide grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)(1).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arguments that support the judgment as entered can be made without a cross-appeal . . . . even where the argument being raised has been explicitly rejected by the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court abuses its discretion if it does not apply the correct law ...”
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.