Perrian v. E O'Grady’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 192 · 1992
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Cowen v. Bank United of Texas, FSB (1995), Moore v. State of Indiana D (1993)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Bohen v. City of East Chicago · Textor v. Board of Regents of Northern Illinois University · Jd Marshall International Inc v. Redstart Inc Plc · Arkwright-Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. City of New York
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]eave to amend is ‘inappi’opriate where there is undue delay, bad faith, dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the opposing party by virtue of allowance of the amendment, or futility of the amendment.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The burden to the judicial system can justify a denial of a motion to amend “even if the amendment would cause no hardship at all to the opposing party.” Because substantive amendments shortly before trial serve to defeat the public’s interest in speedy resolution of legal disputes, “[a] district court judge is entitled, in such circumstances, to refuse to allow a plaintiffs amendment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“relief between the persons already parties, and not as between a party and the absent person whose joinder is sought.”
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.