Harris v. Callwood’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 1254 · 1988
Citation profile
59 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Carver v. Bunch (1991), Ball v. City of Chicago (1993)
59 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
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Anderson Nat Bank v. Luckett · Carter v. City of Memphis · Silas v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Holt v. Pitts
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of notice that dismissal is contemplated a district court should impose a penalty short of dismissal unless the derelict party has engaged in 'bad faith or contumacious conduct.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“degree of willfulness, bad faith or contumacious conduct”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the Sixth Circuit, we have frequently reversed district courts for dismissing cases because litigants failed to appear or to comply with pretrial orders when the district courts did not put the derelict parties on notice that further noncompliance would result in dismissal.”
3 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.