Pressey v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 1018 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Reilly v. NatWest Markets Group Inc. (1999), Trevino v. Ortega (1998)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Grandstaff v. City of Borger
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]triking the pleadings of a defendant and rendering default judgment is equally as harsh a sanction as dismissing the case of a plaintiff with prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inherent power to control litigation and litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“bad faith or willful abuse of the judicial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Legg
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.