Kilgo v. Ricks’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 189 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ball v. City of Chicago (1993), Justice v. United States (1993)
10 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 Goforth v. Owens · United States v. Torkington · Poole v. Lambert · Jones v. Graham
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we occasionally have found implicit in an order the conclusion that 'lesser sanctions would not suffice', we have never suggested that the district court need not make that finding, which is essential before a party can be penalized for his attorney's misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because the penalty is so drastic [that] a district court may dismiss a case ... only where there is a clear record of delay or willful contempt and a finding that lesser sanctions would not suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A district court has authority under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 41(b) to dismiss actions for failure to comply with local rules. We review such orders for abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.