Johnson v. Kamminga’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 466 · 1994
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Kruger v. Apfel (2000), Dunphy v. McKee (1998)
27 federal appellate ·
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 Ball v. City of Chicago · Halas v. Consumer Services, Inc. · Lockhart v. Sullivan
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would in effect be granting each litigant one opportunity to disregard the court's schedule without fear of penalty regardless of the harm to other litigants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if it is plain either that the dismissal was a mistake or that the judge did not consider factors essential to the exercise of a sound discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because district judges have a better understanding of their litigants and their docket, review of managerial decisions such as this one are appropriately deferential,”
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.