Bolden v. Brazile’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2015
21 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 Ayres v. Wiswall · State v. De Soto · Sliman v. Araguel · Lips v. Royal Ins. · Evans v. Hamner
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An action is abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution or defense in the trial court for a period of five years. This provision shall be operative without formal order, but on ex parte motion of any party or other interested person, the trial court shall enter a formal order of dismissal as of the date of its abandonment."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where a remand to the state court is based on want of jurisdiction on the part of the federal court, it is for the state court to determine what effect shall be given to pleadings filed in the federal court while the case was pending in the latter tribunal. Ayres v. Wiswall, 112 U.S. 187 , 5 S.Ct. 90 , 28 L.Ed. 693 ; Broadway Ins. Co. v. Chicago G. W. Ry. Co., C. C., 101 F. 507 ; Trinity Universal Ins. Co. v. Robinson, 227 Ark. 482 , 299 S.W.2d 833 ; Tracy Loan & Trust Co. v. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 79 Utah 33 , 7 P.2d 279 ; Citizens' Light, Power & Tel. Co. v. Usnik, 26 N.M. 494 , 194 P. 862 ; 76 C.J.S. Removal of Causes § 313."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whenever the plaintiff having made his demand shall at any time before obtaining final judgment allow five years to elapse without having taken any steps in the prosecution thereof, he shall be considered as having abandoned the same.”
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.