Welsh v. Automatic Poultry Feeder Co.’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 95 · 1971
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Raymond MOORE, Appellant, v. ST. LOUIS MUSIC SUPPLY COMPANY, INC., Appellee (1976), Selby v. Money (1981)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Christine M. Grunewald, Individually and as of the Will of Henry W. Grunewald, Deceased v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri Corporation · Bowles v. Goebel
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(D)ismissal with prejudice for failure to prosecute is ' * * * a drastic sanction which should be sparingly exercised * * *.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the responsible exercise of official conscience on all the facts of a particular situation,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Willful as used in the context of ... failure to prosecute implies a conscious or intentional failure to act, as distinguished from accidental or involuntary noncompliance and no wrongful intent need generally be shown.”
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.