Citizens Utilities Company v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 1171 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Ash v. Cvetkov (1984), Lyell Theatre Corp. v. Loews Corp. (1982)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Anderson v. Air West, Inc. · Pearson v. Dennison · Yanish v. Barber · Alexander v. Pacific Maritime Ass'n
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] the court’s need to manage its docket, [2] the public interest in expeditious resolution of litigation, [3] the risk of prejudice to defendants from delay, [4] the policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“delay, ... whether actual prejudice exists may be an important factor in deciding whether a given delay is”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]or failure of the plaintiff to prosecute or to comply with these rules or any order of court, a defendant may move for dismissal of an action or of any claim against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.