Pratt v. Philbrook’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.3d 18 · 1997
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 17 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Graphic Communications International Union v. Quebecor Printing Providence, Inc. (2001), In Re O'brien Environmental Energy, Inc. (1999)
14 federal appellate · 17 district · 2 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 Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · Lawrence Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Chater · Committee for Idaho's High Desert, Inc. v. Yost · Stutson v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the determination is at bottom an equitable one, taking account of all relevant circumstances ... [including] the danger of prejudice to the [other party], the length of the delay and its potential impact on judicial proceedings, the reason for the delay, including whether it was within the reasonable control of the movant, and whether the movant acted in good faith.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From our vantage point it is difficult to see what cognizable prejudice, in the sense, for example, of lost evidence, would come to the defendant from reopening the case. Of course, it is always prejudicial for a party to have a case reopened after it has been closed advantageously by an opponent’s default. But we do not think that is the sense in which the term “prejudice” is used in Pioneer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At a settlement conference with the trial judge, the parties announced they had agreed upon terms to resolve this case. The trial judge told them that he would enter a 60-day Settlement Order of Dismissal and invited them to return to him if problems arose during that time period which impeded consummation of the settlement. Within a day such problems arose but the parties did not alert the court. After sixty days passed and the trial court heard nothing further from the parties, the dismissal became final by operation of the settlement order. About three weeks later, plaintiffs counsel, who ultimately framed his failure to forestall the dismissal as an instance of excusable neglect under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b), began to seek to have the dismissal vacated and the case reopened. The trial judge declined, observing that if a settlement order of dismissal were vacated under such circumstances, the order would essentially be meaningless.”
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.