Penny v. Shansky’s Empirical Analysis
884 F.2d 329 · 1989
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2000
10 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. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Mallard v. United States Dist. Court for Southern Dist. of Iowa · Holt v. Pitts · Heidelberg v. Hammer · Schilling v. Walworth County Park & Planning Commission
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any warning that failure to appear at the hearing would lead not merely to the denial of his two motions but to the dismissal with finality of the entire lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cain v. Lane
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.