Clarence Marshall, Jr. v. Allyn R. Sielaff’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.2d 917 · 1974
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Hobson v. Wilson (1984), Westinghouse Securities Litigation Md (1996)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 · Panichella v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Borden Co. v. Sylk · Nathan Richman, Administrator v. General Motors Corporation · Herbert E. Theilmann, Administrator of Herbert K. Theilmann v. The Rutland Hospital, Inc., and Dr. Donald D. Dingman
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a litigant could refuse to proceed whenever a trial judge ruled against him, wait for the court to enter a dismissal for failure to prosecute, and then obtain review of the judge's interlocutory decision, the policy against piecemeal litigation and review would be severely weakened.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the scope of appellate review of an order of dismissal is extremely narrow, confined solely to whether the trial court has abused its discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o precise rule can be laid down as to what circumstances justify a dismissal for failure to prosecute, but the procedural history of each case must be examined in order to make that determination. The power of the court to prevent undue delays and to achieve the orderly disposition of cases must be weighed against the policy of law which favors disposition of litigation on its merits[,]”
3 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.