Payne’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Perry Coleman (2000), Yeti by Molly Ltd Montana Corporation
4 district · 3 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 Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Utility Contractors, Inc. v. United States · Tallman v. Northwest Acute Care Corp. · Peer International Corp. v. Pausa Records, Inc.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The public’s interest in expeditious resolution of the litigation; (2) the court’s need to manage its docket; (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic actions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[t]he scope of sanctions for failure to comply with a discovery order is committed to the sound discretion of the district court. If Congress had intended to limit the district court’s dismissal authority to claims against the party who propounded discovery, it would not have chosen such sweeping language. Under Rule 37(b)(2), plaintiffs’ willful and repeated violations of discovery orders gave the district court authority to dismiss the entire ‘action or proceeding.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘If a party ... fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery ... the court in which the action is pending may make such orders in regard to the failure as are just, and among others the following: “ ‘(C) An order ... dismissing the action or proceeding or any part thereof....’””
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.