Morris v. Ocean Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 248 · 1984
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Berry v. CIGNA/RSI-CIGNA (1992), Callip v. Harris County Child Welfare Department (1985)
26 federal appellate · 6 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 · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Durham v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Rogers v. Kroger Co. · Ollie Mae Brown and Margaret Brown v. Allen C. Thompson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“drastic remedy to be used only in those situations where a lesser sanction would not better serve the interests of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a clear record of delay or contumacious conduct by the plaintiff”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'significant periods of total inactivity.'”
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.