Westefer v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “need not make explicit findings regarding a justification or the harmlessness of the Rule 26 violation, but ... the following factors should guide the district court’s discretion: (1) the prejudice or surprise to the party against whom the evidence is offered; (2) the ability of the party to cure the prejudice; (3) the likelihood of disruption to the trial; and (4) the bad faith or willfulness involved in not disclosing the evidence at an earlier date.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Banister v. Burton

2. “[A]s this case comes to us, we find the record hopelessly unclear ... whether any administrative remedy remained open for the prisoners to challenge their transfers through " the grievance process .... IDOC failed to meet its burden of proving that [the prisoners] failed to exhaust an available administrative remedy...'.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Albino v. Baca

3. “confront the issue of what does constitute the appropriate baseline for the Illinois system”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Perry v. Spencer