Long v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 878 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Compaq Computer Corp. v. Ergonome Inc. (2004), Coleman v. Sweetin (2014)
11 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 Berry v. CIGNA/RSI-CIGNA · Burt v. Ware · Burden v. Yates · McCullough v. Lynaugh · Skoczylas v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A dismissal without prejudice is appropriate only if the failure to comply with the court order was the result of purposeful delay or contumaciousness and the record reflects that the district court employed lesser sanctions before dismissing the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“dismiss an action sua sponte ... for failure to comply with a court order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.