Wanderer v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 652 · 1990
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Henry v. Gill Industries, Inc. (1993), Adriana International Corp. v. Thoeren (1990)
40 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Utility Contractors, Inc. 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage it's docket; (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic sanctions.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The first two of these factors favor the imposition of sanctions in most cases, while the fourth cuts against a ... dismissal sanction. Thus the key factors are prejudice and the availability of lesser sanctions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court has the discretion to impose the extreme sanction of dismissal if there has been 'flagrant, bad faith disregard of discovery duties.'”
3 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.