In the Matter of Ralph SCHERI, Debtor-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably In the Matter Of: Kmart Corporation, Debtors-Appellees, Appeal Of: Wilhemina Simmons (2004), English-Speaking Union v. Johnson (2004)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Pioneer Investment Services Company v. Brunswick Associates Limited Partnership · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. · Ball v. City of Chicago · Brown v. National Board of Medical Examiners
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he district judge should be presumed to have acted reasonably, and reversal is warranted therefore only if it is plain either that the dismissal was a mistake or that the judge did not consider the factors essential to the exercise of a sound discretion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An appellant’s failure to take any step other than the timely filing of a notice of appeal does not affect the validity of the appeal, but is ground only for such action as the district court ... deems appropriate, which may include dismissal of the appeal.”
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.