Bendix Aviation Corp. v. Glass’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Titus v. Mercedes Benz of North America (1982), Adams
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Ordnance Gauge Co. v. Jacquard Knitting Machine Co. · Tinnerman Products, Inc. v. George K. Garrett Co. · Bendix Aviation Corp. v. Glass
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[F]ailure to prosecute” under the Rule 41(b) does not mean that the plaintiff must have taken any positive steps to delay the trial or prevent it from being reached by operation of the regular machinery of the court. It is quite sufficient if he does nothing, knowing that until something is done there will be no trial.”
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.