First General Resources Co. v. Elton Leather Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 204 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2010
8 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. Home Insurance · Denton v. Mr. Swiss of Missouri, Inc. · Welsh v. Automatic Poultry Feeder Co. · Givens v. Ah Robins Co Inc · Burgs v. Sissel
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although dismissal with prejudice is a severe sanction, the court may impose such a sanction where the plaintiff has engaged in a pattern of intentional delay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court does not need to find that the plaintiff acted in bad faith, merely that the plaintiff acted deliberately as opposed to accidentally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. David v. Segal“'dismissal with prejudice is an extreme sanction,'”
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.