Canada v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 253 · 1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2019
11 federal appellate · 2 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Link v. Wabash Railroad · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. · Colorado v. Franc
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have consistently held that a dismissal with prejudice is warranted only in extreme circumstances and only after the Trial Court, in the exercise of its unquestionable authority to control its own docket, has resorted to the wide range of lesser sanctions which it may impose upon the litigant or the derelict attorney, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless the court in its order for dismissal otherwise specifies ... any dismissal not provided for in this rule ... operates as an adjudication on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mm v. W Zavaras
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.