Tolbert v. Leighton’s Empirical Analysis
623 F.2d 585 · 1980
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Malone v. United States Postal Service (1987), Franklin v. Murphy (1984)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Delli Paoli v. United States · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co. · Severson v. United States · Colorado v. Franc
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where (1) the only evidence of dilatoriness [was] his or his attorney's failure to attend a pretrial conference; (2) the court [had] not warned that failure to attend [would] create a risk of dismissal; and (3) the case [was] still 'young.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court must consider ... less drastic alternative sanctions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raiford v. Pounds“failure to attend a pretrial conference[,]”
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.