Edwards v. Cass County’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 273 · 1990
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably School Asbestos Litigation Pfizer Inc v. Kelly Kaiser Cement Corporation (1992), Rosario-Diaz v. Gonzalez (1998)
19 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Abney v. United States · Melear v. Spears · Helton v. Clements
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court’s refusal to allow the filing of a substantive motion on the eve of trial three months after the expiration of a deadline (especially where no extension has been sought) should normally be deemed well within the court’s discretion. In other words, a district court seldom would be obliged to interrupt the orderly proceedings of its docket to rule on so critical an issue where the same easily could have been presented at an earlier date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Cockrell“[t]he district court has broad discretion in controlling its own docket.”
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.