Byrd v. Guess’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 1126 · 1998
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Moreland v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (1998), Allen Chance Tab Systems v. Pac-Tel Teletrac Inc (2001)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Rakas v. Illinois · Daniels v. Williams · Alderman v. United States · Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e will only find that the district court abused its discretion if the movant diligently pursued its previous discovery opportunities, and if the movant can show how allowing additional discovery would have precluded summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Officer Cantu repeated this demand three or four times but got no response. Then, as the door started to close, Officer Cantu saw Sylvan raise his gun up through the slit between the door and the door jamb, and point it at Officer VanHolt. Officer Cantu then kicked the door in and started firing through the door in the location where he felt Sylvan was standing. Officer VanHolt also started firing. Sylvan died shortly thereafter from his bullet wounds. LITIGATION HISTORY Ellen Byrd and her mother Vivien Harkness (collectively referred to as the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Guess“The district court should consider four factors in determining whether to modify the parties’ pretrial order: (1) the degree of prejudice or surprise to the defendants if the order is modified; (2) the ability of the defendants to cure any prejudice; (3) the impact of the modification on the orderly and efficient conduct of the case; and (4) any degree of willfulness or bad faith on the part of the party seeking the modification.”
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.