Link v. Wabash Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
291 F.2d 542 · 1961
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Link v. Wabash Railroad (1962), Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. (1968)
28 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
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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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts may exercise their inherent powers and invoke dismissal as a sanction in situations involving disregard by parties of orders, rules or settings. * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Pre-trial procedure has become an integrated part of the judicial process on the trial level. Courts must be free to use it and to control and enforce its operation. Otherwise, the orderly administration of justice will be removed from the trial court and placed in the hands of counsel. We do not believe such a course is within the contemplation of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . It is sheer sophistry to argue that a trial court has no inherent power to enforce its rules, orders or procedures, and to impose appropriate sanctions for failure to comply.” 291 F.2d at 545 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.