Doyle v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 33 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ball v. City of Chicago (1993), United States v. Rhynes (2000)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Paris Reizakis v. Albert E. Loy · Herbert v. Saffell · Chandler Leasing Corp. v. Lopez
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the degree of personal responsibility of the plaintiff; (2) the amount of prejudice caused the defendant; (3) the existence of a drawn out history of deliberately proceeding in a dilatory fashion; and (4) the existence of sanctions less drastic than dismissal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to dismiss an action for want of prosecution. See Link v. Wabash R. Co. , 370 U.S. 626 , 630, 82 S.Ct. 1386 , 8 L.Ed.2d 734 (1962). Although Rule 41(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides an”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But this must always be done with an eye to the realities of a client's practical ability to supervise and control his attorney's litigation conduct.”
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.