Morris’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Ball v. City of Chicago (1993), Eisen Moneymaker v. J (1994)
5 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
Relies on John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Delli Paoli v. United States · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is indeed a policy favoring disposition on the merits, it is the responsibility of the moving party to move towards that disposition at a reasonable pace, and to refrain from dilatory and evasive tactics.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'definite and firm conviction that the court below committed a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached upon a weighing of the relevant factors.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage its docket; (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the policy favoring disposition of cases on their merits[;] and (5) the availability of less drastic sanctions.”
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.