Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Lewis v. Weyerhaeuser Co. (2005), UNITED STATES ex rel. [REDACTED] v. [REDACTED] (2001)
3 district ·
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 · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For failure of the plaintiff to prosecute or to comply with these rules or any order of the court, a defendant may move for dismissal of an action or of any claim against the defendant. Unless the court in its order for dismissal otherwise specifies, a dismissal under this subdivision ... operates as an adjudication upon the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Despite the Supreme Court's unequivocal language [in Link ], this court, like many others, has been extremely reluctant to uphold the dismissal of a case merely to discipline an attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e review discovery matters under an abuse of discretion standard.”
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.