Williams v. Ezell’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 1261 · 1976
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp. (1987), Abrams v. Interco Inc. (1983)
67 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 41. Dismissal of Actions. (a) VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL: EFFECT THEREOF. (1) By Plaintiff: By Stipulation. Subject to the provisions of Rule 23(e), of Rule 66, and of any statute of the United States, an action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of court (i) by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of an answer or of a motion for summary judgment, whichever first occurs, or (ii) by filing a stipulation of dismissal signed by all parties who have appeared in the action. Unless otherwise stated in the notice of dismissal or stipulation, the dismissal is without prejudice, except that a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication upon the merits when filed by a plaintiff who has once dismissed in any court of the United States or of any state an action based on or including the same claim. ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attempt to deny relief on the merits and dismiss with prejudice [is] void”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that it [the motion] was styled a `Motion for Dismissal' rather than a `Notice of Dismissal' is, in our opinion, a distinction without a difference”
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.