No. 85-2149’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 · Franklin v. Murphy · Severson v. United States · Anderson v. Air West, Inc. · Von Poppenheim v. Portland Boxing & Wrestling Commission
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining whether an abuse of discretion has occured, a number of factors are relevant, including the plaintiff’s diligence, the trial court’s need to manage its docket, the danger of prejudice to the party suffering the delay, the availability of alternative sanctions, and the existence of warning to the party occasioning delay.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he order dismissing the case indicate[d] that the district judge was primarily concerned with the time the case had been on the docket and the inconvenience of rescheduling his calendar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile these are legitimate concerns, they do not relieve the district judge of his obligation to warn the plaintiff that dismissal is imminent.”
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.