Hamilton Copper Steel Corporation v. Primary Steel Inc’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 1428 · 1990
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Adriana International Corp. v. Thoeren (1990), Ferdik v. Bonzelet (1992)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Utility Contractors, Inc. v. United States · Malone v. United States Postal Service
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court 'abuses its discretion if it imposes a sanction of dismissal without first considering the impact of the sanction and the adequacy of less drastic sanctions.'”
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.