Collins v. Wayland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]f a party or an officer, director, or managing agent of a party or a person designated under Rule 30(b)(6) or 31(a) to testify on behalf of a party fails (1) to appear before the officer who is to take the deposition, after being served with a proper notice, ... the court in which the action is pending on motion may make such orders in regard to the failure as are just, and among others it may take any action authorized under paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) of subdivision (b)(2) of this rule. Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(d).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Honda

2. ““The suggestion that, because appellant resided in Oregon, the District Court of the United States for the District of Arizona, whose jurisdiction he had invoked, could not require him to give a deposition in Arizona is untenable. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Farrar v. Farrar

3. ““The notice was dated November 6, 1942, and was served 2 on November 7,1942. * * “The appeal is a frivolous one. The notice for taking appellant’s deposition was -a proper notice and was properly served.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Socha v. Webber