Williams v. Brown & Root, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 325 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Edwards v. City of Houston (1996), Edward Bohlin Co Inc v. Banning Co Inc C T H (1993)
20 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Seven Elves, Inc. v. Eskenazi · Harcon Barge Co. v. D & G Boat Rentals, Inc. · Shihshu Walter Wei v. State of Hawaii · Rogers v. Kroger Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not enough that the granting of relief might have been permissible, or even warranted--denial must have been so unwarranted as to constitute an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without other evidence of delay and without the consideration of lesser sanctions, such an application of [the local rule] would not meet the involuntary dismissal standards [of Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(b) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where further litigation of [a] claim will be time-barred, a dismissal without prejudice is no less severe a sanction than a dismissal with prejudice, and the same standard of review is used.”
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.