Perna v. Electronic Data Systems, Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · State v. Simpson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“great prejudice to the litigation process. Our system is built on rules and procedures. Litigants who bring matters before this court must conduct themselves in an appropriate fashion____ Further, there is a public interest in discouraging an “anything goes” approach to litigation. Litigants who avail themselves to the jurisdiction of the court to seek redress must conduct themselves within the orderly administration of justice and the rules of the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the general abuse of the discovery process being conducted under the authority of this court and the ability to punish the perpetration of fraud upon the court that must be sanctioned. It is not necessary to demonstrate that the purloined letter was relevant to this lawsuit. Rather, it is the conduct that must be recognized as an interference with the judicial process and the orderly and fair administration of justice. Id. (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where it can be demonstrated, clearly and convincingly, that a party has sentiently set in motion some unconscionable scheme calculated to interfere with the judicial system's ability impartially to adjudicate a matter by improperly influencing the trier or unfairly hampering the presentation of the opposing party's claim or defense.”
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.