Moon v. Newsome’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.2d 835 · 1989
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ehrenhaus v. Reynolds (1992), McGill v. Faulkner (1994)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Bibby v. United States · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · Biscayne 21 Condominium, Inc. v. South Atlantic Financial Corp. · Procup v. Strickland
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is subject to the relevant law and rules of court including the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that even a non-lawyer should realize the peril to her case, when she ... ignores numerous notices, and fails to attend hearings and depositions. Even a non-lawyer should realize the need to communicate either with the court or with opposing counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where monetary sanctions are imposed on [a] ... litigant and the litigant comes forward showing a true inability to pay, it might be an abuse of discretion for the court then to dismiss for failure to pay”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. English v. Cowell
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.