Little v. Yeutter’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 160 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Knoll v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1999), Harmon v. CSX Transportation, Inc. (1997)
31 federal appellate · 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the one hand, there is the court’s need to manage its docket, the public’s interest in expeditious resolution of litigation, and the risk of prejudice to a defendant because the plaintiff has failed to actively pursue its claims. On the other hand is the policy which favors disposition of cases on their merits. In recognizing those competing concerns, this circuit has stated that dismissal of an action is a harsh sanction which the court should order only in extreme situations ....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no evidence which shows that [the plaintiff] failed to adhere to any pre-trial orders or that he failed or would have failed to appear at the pre-trial conference or the trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent this showing, ... the court is limited to lesser sanctions designed to achieve compliance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rush v. McLendon
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.