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Ballard v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis

882 F.2d 93 · 1989

Citation profile

112
cited by 112 later decisions
May 2019
most recently cited

37 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ball v. City of Chicago (1993), Melvin Wayne Martin v. Lieutenant Alan R. Buzzard Officer Patterson Officer Pugh (1995)

37 federal appellate ·

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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. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Haines v. Kerner · Tolliver v. Northrop Corp. · Spence v. Farrier

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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the plaintiff's degree of personal responsibility; (2) the amount of prejudice caused the defendant; (3) the presence of a drawn out history of deliberately proceeding in a dilatory fashion; and (4) the effectiveness of sanctions less drastic than dismissal.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. John Pete Perdue, Jr. v. B. L. Penalosa, Physician, Portsmouth City Jail Zabo Correction Food Service Portsmouth City Jail · Attkisson v. Holder
  2. “failed to respond to a specific directive from the [trial] court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Attkisson v. Holder · Attkisson v. Holder
  3. “Plaintiff's failure to timely file such a statement and to serve it on [defendants] will result in my recommendation that this case be dismissed forthwith, with prejudice, for failure to obey an order of the court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ballard v. Carlson

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.