Lucas v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 532 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Robert Baffa v. Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Wynder v. McMahon (2004)
20 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman · Owens v. Okure · Branum v. Clark · Romandette v. Weetabix Co. · Minnette v. Warner
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[1] the duration of the plaintiff's failures, [2] whether plaintiff had received notice that further delays would result in dismissal, [3] whether the defendant is likely to be prejudiced by further delay, [4] whether the district judge has take[n] care to strik[e] the balance between alleviating court calendar congestion and protecting a party's right to due process and a fair chance to be heard . . . and [5] whether the judge has adequately assessed the efficacy of lesser sanctions.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a decision to dismiss stands a better chance on appeal if the appellate court has the benefit of the district court's reasoning.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deference is due to the district court's decision to dismiss a pro se litigant's complaint only when the circumstances are sufficiently extreme.”
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.