Frederick A. Carter v. Albert Einstein Medical Center

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the fees and costs “may be reimbursed in whole or in part by the imposition of sanctions on the plaintiff’s lawyer personally”
• finding plaintiff not personally responsible even when he knew of his attorney's dereliction
• articulating similar factors for district courts to consider when weighing whether to impose dismissal as a sanction
• reversing denial of plaintiff’s Rule 60(b) motion based on plaintiff’s counsel’s “blatant disregard for explicit [court] orders”
• granting Rule 60(b)(1) relief from a default judgment where counsel misled his client into believing he complied with discovery order
• considering dismissal as discovery sanction under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1994-07-15· cited 401×
• Community Dental Services, Dba Smilecare Dental Group v. Stuart Tani, Dds
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-04-24· cited 263×
• Hoxworth v. Blinder, Robinson & Co.
  Third Circuit· 1992-12-02· cited 252×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1992-12-02· cited 143×
• Donnie Diane Freeland Lyle M. Freeland v. Dr. Isidro Amigo
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-01-10· cited 135×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1988-07-01· cited 123×
• Menzies v. Galetka
  Utah Supreme Court· 2006-12-15· cited 122×
• Walter M. Guyer v. Jeffrey A. Beard
  Third Circuit· 1990-08-22· cited 114×
• Johnson v. Allis Chalmers Corp.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1991-06-05· cited 111×
• The Republic Of The Philippines v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1995-01-05· cited 93×
• Coleman v. American Red Cross
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-05-16· cited 81×
• Eugene Landon, Cyril A. Moyer and Martin Campbell v. Bruce Hunt, Carol J. Hunt and A. Cruickshanks, IV
  Third Circuit· 1991-07-19· cited 65×
• Morton v. Continental Baking Co.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1997-04-08· cited 43×
• Dunbar v. Triangle Lumber & Supply Co.
  Third Circuit· 1987-04-14· cited 41×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1987-04-14· cited 31×
• KPS & Associates, Inc. v. Designs by FMC, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2003-01-28· cited 25×
• W. H. Shipman, Ltd. v. Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co.
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1990-06-14· cited 24×
• Regional Refuse Systems, Inc. v. Inland Reclamation Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-03-16· cited 23×
• RTC Mortgage Trust 1994 N-1 v. Fidelity National Title Insurance
  D. New Jersey· 1997-10-20· cited 19×
• Mosel Vitelic Corp. v. Micron Technology, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2000-03-24· cited 14×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Link v. Wabash Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 14,398×
• Lefteri Poulis and Athena Poulis, His Wife v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company
  Third Circuit· 1984-11-05· cited 2,455×
• National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 2,202×
• Scarborough v. Eubanks
  Third Circuit· 1984-11-05· cited 171×
• Donnelly v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1982-05-03· cited 123×
• Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. v. Bernard Lust, Trading as Sydney Lust Theatres, and Independent Theatres, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1973-06-11· cited 92×
• Quality Prefabrication, Inc. v. Daniel J. Keating Co.
  Third Circuit· 1982-03-30· cited 70×
• In the Matter of James W. MacMeekin Barbara A. MacMeekin Debtors. Lois Burns, Frederick Kuckuck, and Stelmir & Co. v. James W. MacMeekin
  Third Circuit· 1983-11-03· cited 32×
• Boughner v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
  Third Circuit· 1978-03-08· cited 23×