Malot’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2024
8 district · 1 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 Damiani v. Rhode Island Hospital · HMG Property Investors, Inc. v. Parque Industrial Rio Canas, Inc. · Tower Ventures, Inc. v. City of Westfield · Robson v. Hallenbeck · Chamorro v. Puerto Rican Cars, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the nature of the misconduct, its repetition (or lack thereof), its degree of deliberateness, the extent to which the offender had fair warning of the possible consequences of misconduct, the availability vel non of an opportunity to offer an explanation or to plead for leniency, the legitimacy of any proffered excuse, any other aggravating or mitigating circumstances, the presence or absence of prejudice to the other party, the degree of interference with the functioning of the court, and the adequacy of lesser sanctions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e must fairly balance the court's venerable authority over case management with the larger concerns of justice, including the strong presumption in favor of deciding cases on the merits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be employed only after the district court has determined 'that none of the lesser sanctions available to it would truly be appropriate.'”
1 later decision 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.