Davis v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 69 · 1978
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Custer v. Pan American Life Insurance (1993), United States v. Shaffer Equipment Co. (1993)
35 federal appellate · 9 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Dove v. Codesco · Paris Reizakis v. Albert E. Loy
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] dismissal with prejudice is a harsh sanction which should not be invoked lightly in view of 'the sound public policy of deciding cases on their merits,'”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he most severe in the spectrum of sanctions provided by statute or rule must be available to the district court in appropriate cases, not merely to penalize those whose conduct may be deemed to warrant such a sanction, but to deter those who might be tempted to such conduct in the absence of such a deterrent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because he could not take his radio with him”
2 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.