Dunphy v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.3d 1297 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Collington (2006), Grun v. Pneumo Abex Corp. (1998)
25 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cuyler v. Sullivan · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Ferri v. Ackerman · Ball v. City of Chicago · Farmer v. Haas
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only in extreme situations, when there is a clear record of delay or contumacious conduct, or when other less drastic sanctions have proven unavailable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the usual assumptions about the agency relationship between the lawyer and client must be relaxed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Sterling“abuse of discretion review is not the same thing as a rubber stamp”
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.