Webber v. Eye Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1067 · 1983
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Ball v. City of Chicago (1993), Craighead
52 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Cardillo v. United States · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co.
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 78 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 usually be employed only in extreme situations, when there is a clear record of delay or contumacious conduct, or when other less drastic sanctions have proven unavailing.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the plaintiff fails to prosecute or to comply with these rules or a court order, a defendant may move to dismiss the action or any claim against it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Tamari v. Bache & Co. (Lebanon) S.A.L., 729 F.2d 469 , 472 (7th Cir.1984). The sanction of dismissal is”
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.