Pontarelli v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 104 · 1991
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Beardsley v. Webb (1994), Southard v. Texas Board of Criminal Justice (1997)
44 federal appellate · 28 district · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the Rule allows an extension of time upon a showing of excusable neglect or “good cause,” the latter is applicable only where a motion is filed before the [expiration] of the thirty-day period. The good cause language was added to the Rule by a 1979 amendment because the excusable neglect standard “never fit exactly the situation in which the appellant seeks an extension before the expiration of the initial time.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither displaces nor overlaps the 'excusable neglect' analysis customarily employed under the earlier rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“filed not later than 30 days after the expiration of the time prescribed by this Rule 4(a).”
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.