Lockhart v. Patel’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2003
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Kothe v. Smith · Ruiz v. Transportes Aereos Militares Ecuadorianos · 636 F. Supp. 1575 - United States v. Reaves · G. Heileman Brewing Co. v. Joseph Oat Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I do not accept the proposition that Rule 16 does not authorize a court to require the presence of parties with full authority to settle a case .... A settlement conference without all of the necessary parties present is not productive. Neither is a conference of persons who have no authority to settle. By bringing their dispute to a court for resolution, the parties have invoked the use of an expensive public resource. It is a misuse of those resources for any party to refuse even to meet personally with the opposing party or its counsel to attempt to resolve their disputes prior to trial. It is no argument that it would have been futile for [the defendant or its insurer] to appear by representatives with full authority to settle, simply because these corporations had decided that they would not settle on any terms other than full dismissal of the claims against [the defendant]. It is always possible that exposure of the decisionmakers to the realities of a case will bring about a reevaluation of settlement posture on the part of those persons. Thus it is appropriate for a judicial officer to require that, particularly in complex and protracted litigation, the decisionmakers be made aware of all aspects of the case and the anticipated costs of its prosecution and defense by being personally present before the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“court cannot require any party to settle a case, whether the court thinks that party's position is reasonable or not, but it can require it to make reasonable efforts, including attending a settlement conference with an open mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no appearance is made on behalf of a party....”
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.