Henderson v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 1421 · 1986
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Malone v. United States Postal Service (1987), Thompson v. Housing Authority (1986)
125 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 · Ash v. Cvetkov · Carter v. City of Memphis · Nevijel v. North Coast Life Insurance
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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage its docket; (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic sanctions.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“review the record independently to determine whether the court abused its discretion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Dismissal is a harsh penalty and is to be imposed only in extreme circumstances.”
6 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.