Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
51 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Rockwell International Corp. v. United States (2007), Hill v. City of St. Louis (2012)
51 district · 1 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 Monge v. California · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Adler v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · Marguerite Hicks v. The Gates Rubber Company · Kaul v. Stephan
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an issue is set forth in the pre-trial order, it is not necessary to amend previously-filed pleadings because the pre-trial order is the controlling document for trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]laims, issues, defenses, or theories of damages not included in the pretrial order are waived even if they appeared in the complaint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The laudable purpose of Fed. R. Civ. P. 16 is to avoid surprise, not foment it.”
2 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.