Williams v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 270 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably University of South Alabama v. American Tobacco Co. (1999), Bonneville Associates, Limited Partnership, and MacHan Hampshire Properties, Ltd v. David J. Barram, Administrator, General Services Administration (1999)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Rose v. Lundy · North Star Steel Co. v. Thomas · Holtan v. Nebraska · Van-S-Aviation Corp. v. Piper Aircraft Corp. · State v. Williams
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'render[s] the proceedings a nullity and leave[s] the parties as if the action had never been brought'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) By Plaintiff; by Stipulation. — Subject to the provisions of Rule 23(c), of Rule 66, and of any statute, an action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of court: (i) by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of an answer or of a motion for summary judgment, whichever first occurs; or (ii) by filing a stipulation of dismissal signed by all parties who have appeared in the action. Unless otherwise stated in the notice of dismissal or stipulation, the dismissal is without prejudice, except that a notice of dismissal operates as an adjudication upon the merits when filed by a plaintiff who has once dismissed in any court an action in which service was obtained based on or including the same claim.”
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.