Rodriquez v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Lueck (1975), Nielson v. Patterson (2003)
25 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Goodman v. State · State v. Sims · State v. Sims · State v. Davis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have frequently held that we prefer to determine cases on their merits rather than on points of procedure. Colboch v. Aviation Credit Corp., 64 Ariz. 88 , 166 P.2d 584 . We have also held that we look to substance rather than to form. Goodman v. State, 96 Ariz. 139 , 393 P.2d 148 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The prevailing party in the lower court has won the case. We cannot lightly deprive him of his victory ... "On the other hand, while the appellee has won a valuable right, the appellant's right to a meaningful appeal, is also valuable. When an essential part of the record has been lost without any fault on the part of the appellant, a refusal to grant relief is final and irrevocable and there is no way that the appellant can rectify an erroneous judgment. Obviously, no matter which way this court decides the case, one party's justice is going to be less than complete. But that result is due to the losing of the record, not to our failure to render a just decision. . . . . . . "The proper procedure, therefore, is to file in the court in which the appeal is pending, a motion to suspend the progress of the appeal and to reinstate the trial court's jurisdiction over the case for the limited purpose of reconstructing the record. . . . . . . "If the record cannot be supplied and appellant cannot present a meaningful appeal then ... the appeal must be dismissed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The proper procedure, therefore, is to file in the court in which the appeal is pending, a motion to suspend the progress of the appeal and to reinstate the trial court's jurisdiction over the case for the limited purpose of reconstructing the record. . . . . . .”
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.