Price v. McGlathery’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 472 · 1986
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Meade v. Grubbs (1988), Malone v. United States Postal Service (1987)
25 federal appellate · 3 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 · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Rogers v. Kroger Co. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Linda Roberta POND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BRANIFF AIRWAYS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee
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 54 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” that justified dismissal. In a long line of cases, this Court has held that the sanction of dismissal should only be imposed in the face of a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lesser sanctions would not serve the best interests of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if no appearance is made on behalf of a party at a scheduling or pretrial conference”
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.