Hernandez v. City of El Monte’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 393 · 1998
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Willie Lee Miles v. Kw Prunty Attorney General of the State of California (1999), Yourish v. California Amplifier (1999)
26 federal appellate · 9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · State v. Simpson · Semmes Motors, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · United States v. Fine · Malone v. United States Postal Service
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 93 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 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 alternatives.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]istrict courts have inherent power to control their dockets and may impose sanctions, including dismissal, in the exercise of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may affirm a dismissal where at least four factors support dismissal, . . . or where at least three factors `strongly' support dismissal.”
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.