Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,059’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
25 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Genesee County Employees' Retirement System v. Thornburg Mortgage Securities Trust (2011), Starlight International Inc. v. Herlihy (1999)
25 district · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While on the whole Rule 16 is concerned with the mechanics of pretrial scheduling and planning, its spirit, intent and purpose is clearly designed to be broadly remedial, allowing courts to actively manage the preparation of cases for trial.... [T]here can be no doubt that subsection (f), added as part of the 1983 amendments to Rule 16, indicates the intent to give courts very broad discretion to use sanctions where necessary to insure not only that lawyers and parties refrain from contumacious behavior, already punishable under the various other rules and statutes, but that they fulfill their high duty to insure the expeditious and sound management of the preparation of cases for trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“less any portion of those funds which [Delaware Flood] can establish were utilized for legitimate purposes under the terms and provisions of the Limited Partnership Agreements. There will be a [set-off hearing] at which the burden will be upon [Delaware Flood] to establish to the satisfaction of the fact finder that any portion of [Olcott’s] contribution was utilized for legitimate purposes under the terms of the agreements among the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“furnish [Olcott] with a full, complete, meaningful, and formal accounting of all of the financial affairs of [the four limited partnerships], setting forth all items of contribution, income, and expense as well as the disposition of all assets and monies, for each of the four limited partnerships, including a full and complete accounting for all monies paid by each of the partnerships under the turnkey drilling contracts....”
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.