Ball v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 752 · 1993
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Otis v. City of Chicago (1994), United States v. West Grand Avenue Chicago Illinois (1994)
95 federal appellate · 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Carey v. Piphus · Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · United States v. Boyle
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is plain that the plaintiff's lawyer knew that he faced dismissal of his case.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if it is plain either that the dismissal was a mistake or that the judge did not consider factors essential to the exercise of a sound discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should ... take full and careful account of the frequency and magnitude of the plaintiff's failures to comply with deadlines,”
4 later decisions 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.