Olsen v. Mapes’s Empirical Analysis
333 F.3d 1199 · 2003
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Cohen v. Longshore (2010), Nasious v. Two Unknown B.I.C.E. Agents (2007)
9 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Mobley v. McCormick · Ehrenhaus v. Reynolds · Young v. Quinlan · Romandette v. Weetabix Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the degree of actual prejudice to the defendant; (2) the amount of interference with the judicial process; (3) the culpability of the litigant; (4) whether the court warned the party in advance that dismissal of the action would be a likely sanction for noncompliance; and (5) the efficacy of lesser sanctions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the language or Rule 41(b) requires that the defendant file a motion to dismiss, the Rule has long been interpreted to permit courts to dismiss actions sua sponte for a plaintiff's failure to prosecute or comply with the rules of civil procedure or court orders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manygoat v. Jacobs
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.