Haley v. Kansas City Star’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 489 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2014
13 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Industrial Building Materials, Inc. v. Interchemical Corp. · Carter v. City of Memphis · Raymond MOORE, Appellant, v. ST. LOUIS MUSIC SUPPLY COMPANY, INC., Appellee · Darms v. McCulloch Oil 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a clear record of delay or contumacious conduct by the plaintiff.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a drastic sanction which should be exercised sparingly.'”
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.