Porter v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 732 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2016
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Tallman v. Northwest Acute Care Corp. · Malone v. United States Postal Service · Baker v. Minerex Erdoel, Inc.
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.
“(1) the public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage its dockets; (3) the risk of prejudice to [the party seeking sanctions]; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic 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.'”
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.