Carey v. King’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 1439 · 1988
Citation profile
66 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Ball v. City of Chicago (1993), Eisen Moneymaker v. J (1994)
66 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Henderson v. Duncan · Ash v. Cvetkov
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage its docket; (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic sanctions.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A party, not the district court, bears the burden of keeping the court apprised of any changes in his mailing address.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court could not contact Carey to threaten him with some lesser sanction. An order to show cause why dismissal was not warranted or an order imposing sanctions would only find itself taking a round trip tour through the United States mail.”
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.