Jones v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 261 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Mobley v. McCormick (1994), Ecclesiastes 9:10-11-12, Inc. v. LMC Holding Co. (2007)
19 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 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 Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Cherek v. United States · Adams v. Fulcomer · Meade v. Grubbs
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the degree of actual prejudice to the defendant; (2) the amount of interference with the judicial process; ... (3) the culpability of the litigant; (4) whether the court warned the party in advance that dismissal of the action would be a likely sanction for noncompliance; and (5) the efficacy of lesser sanctions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is enough to say the [sanctioned party] repeatedly ignored court orders and thereby hindered the court's management of its docket and its efforts to avoid unnecessary burdens on the court and the opposing party.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Dismissing a case with prejudice serves at least two purposes. It penalizes the party whose conduct warrants the sanction and discourages 'those who might be tempted to such conduct in the absence of such a deterrent.'”
3 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.