Williams v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• plaintiff's claim had enough merit that he might have been able to obtain a judgment that would cover the sanction amount
• “[A] plaintiff's inability to pay a monetary sanction imposed in a civil lawsuit should not automatically justify the alternative sanction of dismissal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Natanael Rivera v. Michael Drake
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-09-03· cited 68×
• Anthony Gay v. Rakesh Chandra
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-05-30· cited 14×
• Jenkins v. Miles
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-02-13· cited 6×
• Yongping Zhou v. Belanger
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-06-27· cited 1×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Link v. Wabash Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 14,398×
• David Richard Moon v. Lanson Newsome, Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-01-17· cited 1,972×
• Bearden v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-24· cited 1,941×
• Williams v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-29· cited 985×
• Tate v. Short
  Supreme Court· 1971-03-02· cited 837×
• Gripe v. City of Enid
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-12-04· cited 180×
• Cynthia Easley, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Christopher B. Easley v. David Kirmsee
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-08-30· cited 114×
• United States v. Everett D. Seacott
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-02-07· cited 100×
• Walton v. Bayer Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-05-23· cited 99×
• Smith v. Gold Dust Casino
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-05-27· cited 80×
• Malot v. Dorado Beach Cottages Associates
  First Circuit· 2007-02-23· cited 72×
• Sealed v. Sealed
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-06-12· cited 66×
• Joe Rice v. The City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-06-24· cited 64×
• Roland v. Salem Contract Carriers, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-02-19· cited 64×
• Forrest G. English and Robert M. Owens v. William J. Cowell, Donald Siddens, Charles J. Connor
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-07-29· cited 32×
• Selletti v. Carey
  Second Circuit· 1999-04-14· cited 20×
• Herring v. City of Whitehall
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-10-31· cited 19×