Guyer v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 1424 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp. (1993), Manufacturers Consolidation Service, Inc. v. Rodell (2000)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Turner v. Safley · Donnelly v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · Garrison v. Patterson · Pickel 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sanctions of dismissal of action for plaintiff's failure to comply with district court's order is reserved for those cases in which plaintiff has caused delay or engaged in contumacious conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[0]ur decision does not address the merits of Guyer’s habeas claims or determine whether those claims have been exhausted. Instead, our decision addresses the reasonableness of the district court’s pretrial order and later dismissal of the habeas petition for Guyer’s failure to obey the pretrial order.”
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.