Babcock v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 797 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2019
2 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
Relies on Babcock v. White · Jones v. Phipps · Marlow v. Strawn · Ratkovich v. Smith Kline
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“required to interpret [the motion] one way or the other, and our task in reviewing the district court's decision is to determine whether the interpretation adopted by the district court was an abuse of discretion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not speak to the issue of prejudice at all,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a plaintiff moves for dismissal without prejudice, the district court may not dismiss the action with prejudice without first providing the plaintiff a reasonable opportunity to withdraw the motion.”
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.