Burden v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 503 · 1981
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Jurldine A. Donaldson v. Paul v. Clark (1987), Quality Foods Centro America Sa Sa v. Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation Sa
44 federal appellate · 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 Durham v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Gonzalez v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Boazman v. Economics Laboratory, Inc. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Linda Roberta POND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BRANIFF AIRWAYS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tantamount to a dismissal with prejudice, a drastic remedy to be used only in those situations where a lesser sanction would not better serve the interests of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t the time of this dismissal, the relevant statute of limitations had run on appellant's cause of action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to comply with the court order was more a matter of negligence than purposeful delay or contumaciousness”
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.