166 Ind. App. 587 - Farinelli v. Campagna’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Gray v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1993), Wilson v. Palmer (1983)
35 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Hicks v. Bekins Moving & Storage Co. · Beshear v. Weinzapfel · Worster v. Caylor · United States of America for the Use of Weston & Brooker Company, a Corporation v. Continental Casualty Company
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Failure to prosecute civil actions or comply with rules. Whenever there has been a failure to comply with these rules or when .no action has been taken in a civil case for a period of sixty [60] days, the court, on motion of a party or on its own motion shall order a hearing for the purpose of dismissing such case. The court shall enter an order of dismissal at the plaintiff’s costs if the plaintiff shall not show sufficient cause at or before such hearing. Dismissal may be withheld or reinstatement of dismissal may be made subject to the condition that the plaintiff comply with these rules and diligently prosecute the action and upon such terms that the court in its discretion determines to be necessary to assure such diligent prosecution.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rumfelt v. Himes · Rumfelt v. Himes“If without just excuse or because of failure to give reasonable attention to the matter, no appearance is made on behalf of a party at a pre-trial conference ... the court may [order]: (1) payment by the delinquent attorney or party of the reasonable expenses ... [and/or] (2) take such other action as may be appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the power of administrative control, especially when exercised in terms of dismissal or default of the action, should not be lightly indulged in.”
2 later decisions 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.