Woods v. Dahlberg’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 187 · 1990
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably McGore v. Wrigglesworth (1997), Lister v. Department of Treasury (2005)
15 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on Roberts v. United States District Court · Ambrose v. Welch · Foster v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a motion for injunctive relief; (2) a motion for judgment on the pleadings; (3) a motion for summary judgment; (4) a motion to dismiss/quash an information/indictment made by a defendant; (5) a motion to suppress evidence in a criminal case; (6) a motion to dismiss/permit maintenance of a class action; (7) a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted; and (8) a motion to involuntarily dismiss an action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]enial of [motion to proceed in forma pauperis] is the functional equivalent of an involuntary dismissal and is outside the scope of a magistrate's authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“hear and determine any pretrial matter pending before the court,”
1 later decision 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.