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Scarborough v. Eubanks’s Empirical Analysis

747 F.2d 871 · 1984

Citation profile

93
cited by 93 later decisions
4
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

33 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Poulis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1984), Malone v. United States Postal Service (1987)

33 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions

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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 National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Poulis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · Gross v. Stereo Component Systems, Inc. · Prince v. Lehtenen

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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the extent of the party’s personal responsibility; (2) the prejudice to the adversary caused by the failure to meet scheduling orders and respond to discovery; (3) a history of dilatoriness; (4) whether the conduct of the party or the attorney was willful or in bad faith; (5) the effectiveness of sanctions other than dismissal, which entails an analysis of alternative sanctions; and (6) the meritoriousness of the claim or defense.”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the irretrievable loss of evidence, the inevitable dimming of witnesses' memories, or the excessive and possibly irremediable burdens or costs imposed on the opposing party.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the type of willful or contumacious behavior”
    4 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.