Sieck v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 131 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably West v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1999), Bobal v. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1990)
16 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 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Cine Forty-Second Street Theatre Corp. v. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. · Update Art, Inc. v. Modiin Publishing, Ltd. · Kotlicky v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We ... prefer to ... provide the teeth to enforce discovery orders by leaving it to the district court to determine which sanction from among the available range is appropriate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'emphasize[d] the importance we place on a party's compliance with discovery orders,' and we warned that '[a] party who flouts such orders does so at his peril.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere availability of softer sanctions ... does not bar a court from imposing the default sanction. As the Supreme • Court recognized, here, as in other areas of the law, the most severe in the spectrum of sanctions provided by statute or rule must be available to the district court in .appropriate cases, not merely to penalize those whose conduct may be deemed to warrant such a sanction, but to deter those who might be tempted to such conduct in the absence of such a deterrent.”
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.