Taylor v. Medtronics, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 980 · 1988
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Ehrenhaus v. Reynolds (1992), Kauffman v. Allied Signal, Inc., Autolite Division (1992)
54 federal appellate · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Regional Refuse Systems, Inc. v. Inland Reclamation Co. · Patton v. Aerojet Ordnance 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the adversary was prejudiced by the dismissed party's failure to cooperate in discovery, (2) whether the dismissed party was warned that failure to cooperate could lead to dismissal, and (3) whether less drastic sanctions were imposed or considered before dismissal was ordered.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'willfulness' of the offending party's failure to comply”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“negating " the opponent's claim. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317 , 323 (1986) (original emphasis). "[T]he burden on the moving party may be discharged by 'showing'--that is, pointing out to the district court--that there is an absence of evidence to support the nonmoving party's case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.