Vindigni v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
441 F.2d 376 · 1971
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Cine Forty-Second Street Theatre Corp. v. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. (1979), United States v. Cirami (1977)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Rinieri v. News Syndicate Co. · Ohliger v. United States · Fischer v. Dover Steamship Co. · Hines v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the unusual fact of the complete disappearance of plaintiff's attorney”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In reversing the order in this case, we do not depart from the regular course of our decisions upholding discretionary orders of dismissal for failure to prosecute. [Cited cases omitted.] The facts here are readily distinguishable from the facts in those decisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reizakis v. Loy
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.